THE GREAT SEA SERPENT. 



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feet in height. On inspecting it by means of a telescope, at about 

 one and a-half cables' distance, I distinctly saw a head, two flappers 



FIG. 23. THE "SEA SERPENT" AS SEEN FROM H.M. YACHT Oslorne. 



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and about thirty feet of an animal's shoulder. The head, as nearly as 

 I could judge, was about six feet thick, the neck narrower, about four 



FIG. 24. THE "SEA SERPENT" AS SEEN FROM H.M. YACHT Osborne. 



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to five feet, the shoulder about fifteen feet across, and the flappers 

 each about fifteen feet in length. The movements of the flappers 



