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THE GREAT BARRIER REEF. 



Miss Lovell's drawings and description of tiie Moha-Moha are herewith reproduced. A very 

 slight deviation from the original sketch has been made in Fig. 3, a few average sized fishes being 

 introduced to scale, as thrown up into the air on the monster's raising its tail, as described in 

 Miss Lovell's narrative, and with the object of conveying some idea of the creature's proportions. 



THE MOHA-MOHA, OR GREAT BARRIER REEF " SEA-SERPENT," CHELOSAURIA LOVELLI. 



Fig. I. — The animal lying prone in shallow water. 



Fig. 2. — The animal with head reared above the water, the body and tail being submerged. 



Fig. 3. — The tail raised above water, and by its action scattering a shoal of fishes. 



" I was (while walking on the Sandy Island beach) admiring the stillness of the sea, it 

 being a dead calm, when my eye caught sight of the head and neck of a creature I had never 

 seen before. I went to the edge of the water and saw a huge animal, lying at full length, 

 which was not at all disturbed by my close proximity to it, enabling me to observe the 

 glossy skin of the head and neck, smooth and shiny as satin. Its great mouth was wide open 

 all the time it was out of the water. In about a quarter of an hour or so it put its head 

 and neck slowly into the sea, closmg its jaws as it did so. I then saw what a long neck it 

 had, as it moved round in a half circle, and also perceived that the head and neck were 

 moving under a carapace. When the head was pointing out to sea it rose up, puttmg a long- 

 wedge-shaped fish-like tail out of the water over the dry shore, parallel to myself, and not 



