164 Revue Encyclopédique, &c. 
the head and neck, seven or eight folds or coils of the ani- 
mal] were distinctly seen, and were about a fathom apart.” 
This is the statement of a Capt. De Ferry and others, who 
saw the serpent with him. The account from others, who 
are said to have seen this monster of the deep, states, that 
when it was calm, it lay on the water in many folds; and 
that there were in a line with the head some small parts of 
the back to be seen above the surface of the water when it 
moves or bends; and that at a distance these appear like so 
many casks or hogsheads, floating ina line, with a consider- 
“that many other persons on the coast of Norway had seen 
the Sea Serpent—and thought it a strange question, when 
seriously asked, whether there were such an animal in ex- 
istence ; being as vy persuaded of the fact, as of the exis- 
tence of an eel or co 
Extract of a letter to the Editor, dated Boston, April 8, 1820. 
_Thave lately received a letter from Sir Joseph Banks, 
Sey by his own hand,* in which he expresses his full 
n the existence: of our Serpent of the Sea, and 
not ey as it regards himself, but his friends, and he is 
grateful for every new communication I have given him on 
that subject, and writes with the same a that he 
did several years ago although he is now very 
5. Revue Encyclopédique &e. 
Mr. Julien of Paris, has favoured me with various pub- 
lished works of which he is either author or editor. Among 
these interesting productions I can now notice only one, 
- and that brie 
e “Revue E neyclopédique ou analyse Raisonnée des 
productions les plus remarkables dans la literature, les sci 
ae? ae les arts” published Naar is a very able and in- 
ng fp a good degree the in- 
collate light of the world, and pant %s much impartiality 
* Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society of London, the com- 
panion of ee Cot, is now at pte! barre ed Sood but still eget in 
ful knowledge rd. 
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