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| Gruinard Bay, not so far away. CC image Synchronium. |
The following touch of the marvellous has been sent to us, with the strongest assurances of its truth, by one of our Correspondents on the west coast. Our Correspondent says he had the narrative from Mr. Mackenzie himslef, and that the circumstance is making a great noise over the country:--
"POOLE-EWE, JAN. 14. -- On Sunday last, as Mr. Alexander Mackenzie, of Melvaig, was crossing in a boat from Ullapool, when opposite the Green Stone Point, the crew discovered a figure, apparently that of a man, sitting upon a rock, and engaged in fishing. As it was unusual to find any person fishing on the Sabbath Day, the men rowed the boat towards the object of their curiosity, and, to their utter amazement, found it to be partly the likeness of a human being, of which the uppermost part resembled a female, and was white as snow, and the other half was of a sky-blue colour, and had fins and a tail like a fish. The monster was very tame, and the crew say that it did not seem to be afraid of them; that it had soft rolling eyes, and gazed at them for some time, occasionally turning towards some sea-mews that were flying above in the air." -- (Inverness Courier).
From the Morning Post, January 28th 1832.
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