S02 THE GREAT UNKNOWN. 



brown, and comparatively slender; and that a diffusive 

 mane of long spreading hair waved behind the head. The 

 movements were in vertical undulations, according to pre- 

 ponderating testimony ; but some attributed to the animal 

 lateral undulations also. The deponents were of various 

 positions in society, — a workman, a fisherman, a merchant, 

 a candidatus theologice, a sheriff, a surgeon, a rector, a 

 curate, &c. 



Later in the season, the Rev. P. W. Deinboll, arch- 

 deacon of Molde, published the following statement : — 

 "On the 28th of July 184^5, J. C. Lund, bookseller and 

 printer ; G. S. Krogh, merchant ; Christian Mang, Lund's 

 apprentice ; and John Elgenses, labourer ; were out on 

 Eomsdal-fjord, fishing. The sea was, after a warm sun- 

 shiny day, quite calm. About seven o'clock in the after- 

 noon, a little distance from shore, near the ballast place 

 and Molde Hooe, they saw a large marine animal, which 

 slowly moved itself forward, as it appeared to them, 

 with the help of two fins, on the fore part of the body 

 nearest the head, which they judged from the boiling of 

 the water on both sides of it. The visible part of the 

 body appeared to be between forty and fifty feet in length, 

 and moved in undulations like a snake. The body was 

 round and of a dark colour, and seemed to be several ells 

 (an ell=two feet) in thickness. As they discerned a 

 waving motion in the water behind the animal, they con- 

 cluded that part of the body was concealed under water. 

 That it was one connected animal, they saw jjlainly from 

 its movement. When the animal was about one hundred 



