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by two or three hundred persons on the beach and on the 
heights each side, some of whom were very favourably situ- 
ated to observe him. 
I am, very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, - 
SAMUEL CABOT. 
Col. T. H. Perxins. 
It is almost superfluous to add, that Mr. Cabot and his friend Col. Perkins, 
are gentlemen of the first standing and consideration.— Editor. 
__ I, Hawkins Wheeler, of Fairfield, in the county of Fair- 
field, and state of Connecticut, mariner, commander of the 
sloop Concord, of said Fairfield, in her late passage from 
New-York to Salem, in the county of Essex and Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts, on oath declare, that during the 
said passage from New-York to Salem, to wit, on Monday, 
the 6th day of June instant, at about 5 o’clock in the morn- 
ing, the sloop being, as near as I could judge, 15 miles N. 
. of Race Point, and within sight of Cape Ann, I was at 
the helm of the sloop, and saw, directly a-head, (the course. 
of the vessel being N. W.) something that resembled a 
Snake, about 100 yards distant from the sloop, moving in a 
S. W. direction. ‘The animal moved in that direction, till 
he had passed athwart the course of the sloop, and appeared 
directly over the weather bow, when he altered his course 
toS. E. At this time he had been visible about five min- 
utes, when he sunk, and in about six or eight minutes after, 
appeared again directly over the weather quarter, about the 
same distance from the sloop—he continued in that course 
about five or six minutes, when he sunk again, and I saw him 
to seven feet above the surface of the water, and his back 
appeared to be composed of buaches or humps, apparently 
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