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turned round, as if intending to approach him, and 

 passed very near the boat. The tenth deposition 

 we shall give somewhat more fully. " On the 20th 

 of June 1815, my boy informed me of an unusual 

 appearance on the surface of the sea in the Cove. 

 When I viewed it through the glass, I was in a 

 moment satisfied that it was some aquatic animal, 

 with the form, motions, and appearance of which I 

 was not previously acquainted. It was about a 

 quarter of a mile from the shore, and was moving 

 with great rapidity to the southward ; it appeared 

 almost thirty feet in length. Presently it turned 

 about, and then displayed a greater length, I sup- 

 pose at least 100 feet. It then came towards me 

 very rapidly, and lay entirely still on the surface 

 of the water. His appearance then was like a string 

 of buoys. I saw thirty or forty of these protube- 

 rances, or hunches, which were about the size of a 

 barrel. The head appeared six or eight feet long, 

 and tapered off to the size of a horse's head. He 

 then appeared about 120 feet long; the body ap- 

 peared of a uniform size ; the colour deep brown. 

 I could not discover any eye, mane, gills, or breath- 

 ing holes ; I did not see any fins or lips." We add, 

 that there are many other depositions equally point- 

 ed as to the occurrence of this extraordinary crea- 

 ture, and several letters respecting it; one from 

 the Honourable Lonson Nash, one of the committee 

 of the Linnean Society, and himself an eye-witness, 

 and another addressed by a clergyman to Judge 

 Davis, the president of the society. General Hum- 



