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of this kind before, which must confirm the veracity of their 
report. For this creature had not the horizontal but an as- 
cending and descending serpentine motion. This renders it 
highly probable that he never moves on land to any consid- 
erable distance and that the water is his proper element. 
His head was rather larger than that of a horse, but formed 
like that ofa serpent. His body we judged was more than 
sixty feet in length. His head and as much of his body as 
we could discover was all of a blue colour except a black 
circle round his eye. His motion was at first but moder- 
ate, but when he left us and proceeded towards the ocean, he 
moved with the greatest rapidity. This monster is the sixth 
the kind, if our information be correct, which has been 
seen in this bay within the term of eighteen years. Mrs. 
Cummings, my daughter and Miss Martha Spring were with 
me in the boat at that time, and can attest to the above de- 
scription. ee gat 
I continue yours in christian affection, 
ABRAHAM CUMMINGS. 
Rey. Avexanner McLean. ~ 
On my way to the Schooden not meeting with Mr. Cum- 
mings at home, I wrote him a few lines, requesting he 
would leave me an account of the sea monster, he saw last 
summer, if he should be from home on my return. The 
foregoing is his account which may be gratifying to you. 
erhaps it may be of the same kind with the great Sea 
Snake, of which Pontoppidan, Bishop of Bergen, gives an 
account. One of the same kind was seen above thirty 
years ago, by the deceased Capt. Paul Reed, of Boothbay ; 
another was seen in Muscongus Bay in time of the Ameri- 
can war, two miles from the place where I lived then, and 
another soon afterwards off Meduncook. These were all f 
ever heard of, seen on this coast, but I never could have 
such a particular account of them as Mr. Cummings here 
gives, 
A. McLEAN. 
B. ' Sunuivan, Jan. 18th, 1804. 
Rev. and Dear Sir, 
_Lcan recollect nothing material which would render my 
description of that animal more convincing. I am not sure 
