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===18th century=== After 1726's ''Four Years Voyages'', another early description of Davy Jones occurs in [[Tobias Smollett]]'s ''[[The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle]]'', published in 1751:<ref name="fable">{{cite web|last=Brewer|first=E. Cobham|date=1898-01-01|title=Davy Jones's Locker.|url=http://www.bartleby.com/81/4705.html|access-date=2006-04-30|work=Dictionary of Phrase and Fable}}</ref> {{blockquote|This same Davy Jones, according to sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, ''perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes'':, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.<ref name="fable"/>|}} In the story, Jones is described as having saucer eyes, three rows of teeth, horns, a tail, and blue smoke coming from his nostrils.
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