The Monster of Lake Lametrie by Wardon Allan Curtis
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The Monster of Lake Lametrie By Wardon Allan Curtis.
Being the Narration of James Mclennegan, M.D., Ph.D.
From Pearson's Magazine (1899)
Lake Lametrie, Wyoming, April 1st, 1899.
Prof. Wilhelm G. Breyfogle, University of Taychobera.
DEAR FRIEND, -- Inclosed you will find some portions of the diary it has been my life-long custom to keep, arranged in such a manner as to narrate connectedly the history of some remarkable occurrences that have taken place here during the last three years. Years and years ago, I heard vague accounts of a strange lake high up in an almost inaccessible part of the mountains of Wyoming. Various incredible tales were related of it, such as that it was inhabited by creatures which elsewhere on the globe are found only as fossils of a long vanished time.
The lake and its surroundings are of volcanic origin, and not the least strange thing about the lake is that it is subject to periodic disturbances, which take the form of a mighty boiling in the centre, as if a tremendous artesian well were rushing up there from the bowels of the earth. The lake rises for a time, almost filling the basin of black rocks in which it rests, and then recedes, leaving on the shores mollusks and trunks of strange trees and bits of strange ferns which no longer grow -- on the earth, at least -- and are to be seen elsewhere only in coal measures and beds of stone. And he who casts hook and line into the dusky waters, may haul forth, ganoid fishes completely covered with bony plates.
All of this is described in the account written by Father LaMetrie years ago, and he there advances the theory that the earth is hollow,