320 GREAT SEA-SERPENT. 



phreys, by whom the affidavits were taken, trans- 

 mitted a copy of them, and a detail of the whole 

 circumstances, to the late Sir Joseph Banks, in 

 whose library the documents are still preserved. 



An animal of similar appearance was again seen 

 in August 1819> off Nahant, Boston, which re- 

 mained in the neighbourhood for some weeks. 

 When first seen, it was stationary for four hours 

 near the shore, and two hundred persons assembled 

 to view it. Thirteen folds were counted, and the 

 head, which was Serpent-shaped, was elevated 

 two feet above the surface. Its eye was re- 

 markably brilliant and glistening. The water was 

 smooth, and the weather calm and serene. When 

 it disappeared, its motion was undulatory, making 

 curves perpendicular to the surface of the water, 

 and giving the appearance of a long moving string 

 of corks. The last notice we have seen of this 

 American animal bears date July 1833. The Bos- 

 ton and New-York papers of that date state, that 

 the Sea- Serpent had again appeared off Nahant. 

 " It was first seen on Saturday afternoon, passing be- 

 tween Egg Rock and the Promontory, winding his 

 way into Lynn Harbour, and again on Sunday 

 morning, heading for South Shores. He was seen 

 by forty or fifty ladies and gentlemen, who insist 

 that they could not have been deceived." 



In connection with the animal thus seen in Ame- 

 rica, we must not omit the authentic account of a 

 previously undescribed species of Serpent, which 

 has a striking resemblance in some of its features 



