(I was just expressing my concern about having missed this comment when the email arrived.)

Be very, very grateful. It's one of those books that got saved from the slushpile purely because the author had long since established a name as one who sells. I may have remembered some of it to be worse than it is, but not by a whole lot.

I suppose it's possible the book actually refers to another type of water-horse altogether, but that'd be some really sloppy research. The good news is that the book gave me my own kelpies to write about. ^-^