The remarkablest isle, and mountains for landmarks, a round high isle, with little monas by its side, betwixt which is a small harbor, where our ships can lie at anchor."
"Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine"
Walter H. Rich
Vorticella may pair off with monas, who had also written his one book-'Here and There; or, a Trip from Truro to Transylvania'-and not only carried it in his portmanteau when he went on visits, but took the earliest opportunity of depositing it in the drawing-room, and afterwards would enter to look for it, as if under pressure of a need for reference, begging the lady of the house to tell him whether she, had seen "a small volume bound in red."
"Impressions of Theophrastus Such"
George Eliot