I think it is impossible not to see in this description, a spring-tide thunderstorm. But to make it more evident that the untaught mind did regard such a storm as a dragon, I think the following quotation from _John of Brompton’s Chronicle_ will convince the most sceptical: “Another remarkable thing is this, that took place during a certain month in the Gulf of Satalia (on the coast of Pamphylia). There appeared a great and black dragon which came in clouds, and let down his head into the water, whilst his tail seemed turned to the sky; and the dragon drew the water to him by drinking, with such avidity, that, if any ship, even though laden with men or any other heavy articles, had been near him when drinking, it would nevertheless have been sucked up and carried on high. In order however to avoid this danger, it is necessary, when people see it, at once to make a great uproar, and to shout and hammer tables, so that the dragon, hearing the noise, and the voices of those shouting, may withdraw himself far off. Some people, however, assert that this is not a dragon, but the sun drawing up the waters of the sea; which seems more probable.”[2] Such is John of Brompton’s account of a waterspout. In Greek mythology the dragon of the storm has begun to undergo anthropomorphosis. Typhœus is the son of Tartarus and Terra; the storm rising from the horizon may well be supposed to issue from the earth’s womb, and its characteristics are sufficient to decide its paternity. Typhœus, the whirlwind or typhoon, has a hundred dragon or serpent heads, the long writhing strive of vapour which run before the hurricane cloud. He belches fire, that is, lightnings issue from the clouds, and his roaring is like the howling of wild dogs. Typhœus ascends to heaven to make war on the gods, who fly from him in various fantastic shapes; who cannot see in this ascent the hurricane climbing up the vault of sky, and in the flying gods, the many fleeting fragments of white cloud which are seen drifting across the heavens before the gale! [2] Apud TWYSDEN, Hist. Anglicæ Script. x. 1652. p. 1216. Typhœus, according to Hesiod, is the father of all bad winds, which destroy with rain and tempest, all in fact which went among the Greeks by the name of {Greek _laílaps_}, bringing injury to the agriculturist and peril to the voyager. {Greek_?Ek dè Tufwéos é?st? a?némwn ménos u!gròn á?eptwn, nósfi Nótou Boréw te, kaì a?rgéstew Zefúrou te. oí! ge mèn e?n ðeófin geneh`, ðnhtoïs még? ó?neiar. ai! d? á?llai mapsau~rai e?pipneíousi ðalassan. ai! d? h?’toi píptousai e?s heroeideá pónton, ph~ma méga ðnhtoi~si, kakh~j ðúousin a?éllhj. á?llote d? á?llai a?eísi, diaskidna~si te nh~as, naútas te fðeírousi. kakou~ d? ou? gígnetai a?lkh` a?ndrásin, oí! keínhjsi sinántwntai katà pónton. ai! d? aû? kaì katà gai~an a?peíriton, a?nðemóessan é?rg? e?ratà fðeírousi xamaigenéwn a?nðrw’pwn, pimpleu~sai kóniós te kaì a?rgaléou kolosurtou~_} _Hesiod. Theog._ 870, _seq._