Another hypothesis suggested that it was a marine monster who thus upheaved the waters.

We stood amazed, thunderstruck, at the presence of such a herd of marine monsters.

At first I protest against being so widely mistaken as to have taken an island for a marine monster.

Until the present time we had seen alive only marine monsters and fishes.

What could be more ridiculous than to have taken an island for a marine monster?

Up to the present moment, marine monsters, fish, and suchlike animals had alone been seen alive!

Now, what was Ned Land's opinion upon the question of the marine monster?

The central one has two marine monsters who spout water.

Did some marine monster come from time to time, to breathe at the bottom of this well?

I at first thought that they were a tender part of some marine monster, which the storm or some other foe had mangled.