THE SEA-SEKPENT. 



WHO has not heard of the sea-serpent? There 

 was no educated man in the United States, at least, 

 who had not read with wonder, not unmixed with 

 awe, of the visits of this formidable animal to the 

 coasts of New England. Nothing could be better 

 authenticated than the existence of this undes- 

 cribed marine monster nothing more circumstan- 

 tial and truth-like than the statements published 

 in the Boston papers of the visits made by the non- 

 descript, to the vicinity of Gloucester Point and 

 ISTahant ! We were told how it appeared on a cer- 

 tain day off Gloucester and was seen by two skippers 

 commanding separate vessels how it approached 

 one of the sail, as if for the purpose of attack how 

 its eyes were fierce and fiery how its head, large 

 as a flour barrel, was raised three feet above the 

 water how its length was from 90 to 120 feet 

 how its back while it moved along presented the 

 appearance of bunches which projected above the 

 surface, and how, after approaching within fifty yards 

 of the vessel, it dived beneath it and disappeared. 



