368 THE GEEAT UNKNOWN. 



Are not these facts, then, sufficiently weighty to re- 

 strain us from rejecting so great an amount of testimony 

 to the so-called sea-serpent, merely on the ground that 

 its dead remains have not come under examination ? 



In conclusion, I express my own confident persuasion, 

 that there exists some oceanic animal of immense propor- 

 tions, which has not yet been received into the category 

 of scientific zoology ; and rny strong opinion, that it pos- 

 sesses close affinities With the fossil Enaliosauria of the 

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