If Lamb had set down this sailor's tales, as no doubt he would have told them to a child, he could have made a real children's book, of "the sea monsters that lay hid at the bottom, and were seldom seen by man; and what a glorious sight it would be, if our eyes could be sharpened to behold all the inhabitants of the sea at once swimming in the great deeps, as plain as we see the gold and silver fish in a bowl of glass".
