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note for future comment. They say, " its motions were in 

 undulations, and so strong that white foam appeared before 

 it, and at the side, which stretched out several fathoms. It 

 did not appear very high out of the water ; the head was 

 long and small in proportion to the throat : as the latter 

 appeared much greater than the former, probably it was 

 furnished with a mane." 



Sheriffe Gottsche testified to a similar effect. " He 

 could not judge of the animal's entire length ; he could 

 not observe its extremity. At the back of the head there 

 was a mane, which was the same colour as the rest of the 

 body." 



We must take one more Norwegian account, for it is a 

 very important one. The venerable P. W. Deinbolt,* Arch- 

 deacon of Molde, gives the following account of an incident 

 that occurred there on the 28th of July, 1845 : 



" J. C. Lund, bookseller and printer ; G. S. Krogh, merchant ; 

 Christian Flang, Lund's apprentice, and John Elgenses, labourer, were 

 out on Romsdal-fjord, fishing. The sea was, after a warm, sunshiny 

 day, quite calm. About seven o'clock in the afternoon, at a little 

 distance from the shore, near the ballast place and Molde Hooe, they 

 saw a long marine animal, which slowly moved itself forward, as it 

 appeared to them, with the help of two fins, on the fore-part of the 

 body nearest the head, which they judged by the boiling of the water 

 on both sides of it. The visible part of the body appeared to be 

 between forty and fifty feet in length, and moved in undulations, like 

 a snake. The body was round and of a dark colour, and seemed to be 

 several ells in thickness. As they discerned a waving motion in the 

 water behind the animal, they concluded that part of the body was 

 concealed under water. That it was one continuous animal they saw 

 plainly from its movement. When the animal was about one hundred 

 yards from the boat, they noticed tolerably correctly its fore parts, 

 which ended in a sharp snout ; its colossal head raised itself above 

 the water in the form of a semi-circle ; the lower part was not visible. 

 The colour of the head was dark-brown and the skin smooth ; they 



Hitherto erroneously printed " Deinboll." 



