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Fish Story—A Monster.—Every one knows that the northern portion of this State abounds in little lakes, of from umen! of th Froir tier \Mshalf to two or three miles in extent, and pricethat those lakes, from some cause or other, iever! all boast of their curiosities. Some twen-TtheirwithandtifnerrfdepresagaiIVe-it-la-inm-2\\ngrelicer-ty or twenty-five miles north of this place, near Rochester, is a lake which the Indians, from a superstitious fear, have cliris-tianed “Luke Manitoc,” or the Devil's ]coin♦ I ^Lake. A singular story has lately been revived in regard to a monstrous animal which its waters are said to contain.— Some ten years ago. at the building of the Pottawattamie Mills, at the outlet of the Lake, the workmen are said to have observed, perhaps on more than one occasion, something which they took to be an animal of extraordinary dimensions, moving through the water with a rapid motion, and disturbing to an unusual degree the usual placidity of the Luke’s surface. Lately this wonder has been seen again, and by persons entitled to every credibility. It is represented as being fifty or sixty feet long, Of a dun or dusky color, and has a head somewhat resembling (hat of a horn-1 wa less ox, with sparkling eyes, of a yellow |'v^ hue. One of the witnesses is said to havemerrno\Lorwaraliipenlessfill!tan the is 1 we fro:Aamofatelol-irs;seen it raise its head a distance of three an1 VV1or fouv feet above the water, and that where ^ it disappeared its wake was not unlike that c}?1ow :0 woldotislarsoi a large craft moving with celerity thro’ bo1 «the water. minondit of nis-The Indians, who neUher fish nor bathe L c in the Lake, have some fearful traditions s0 in regard to the monster, which they say ] so has existed for the last three hundred years. The Lake is very deep, and in some portions of it, the bottom has never been found.bethinPlt;ispi
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Logansport Herald
Logansport, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 26, 1838
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