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scription of Capt. pr Furry, the officer above alluded to. In this 
figure, the head and jugular region are raised out of the water; 
a little below the head is a mane which seems to be inserted all 
round the back of the neck. The appearance of this mane was 
most probably an optical deception, and was nothing more than 
the water displayed by the neck in the progress of the animal 
through it, returning to its level. It had probably no mane. But 
of the existence of the animal, the testimony presented by the 
Rey. Bishop is sufficiently conclusive.” 
Prof. Pzck seems not to have read Ponroppipan so accurately 
as might be expected from him, for the figure in Ponroppipan’s 
work has quite another origin, as we shall see below. Prof. Puck 
would not have written his supposition of the mane, if one of the 
eye-witnesses of the animal near Cape Ann (see below, 1817), had 
seen a mane. Moreover Pontorripan asserts that nearly all agree 
in representing the animal with a mane, and we shall read of 
several declarations further on. 
As to the colour of the coils, Mr. Lez seems te be at one with 
me for in his frequently quoted work Sea Monsters Unmasked he 
says: “Ihe supposed coils of the serpent’s body present exactly the 
appearance of eight porpoises following each other in line’, and: 
“J believe that im every case so far cited from Ponroppipan, as 
well as that given by Otaus Maenvus, the supposed coils or pro- 
tuberances of the serpent’s body were only so many porpoises 
swimming in line, in accordance with their habit before men- 
tioned.” If Captain von Ferry had described the coils of his ser- 
pent as being white or red, Mr. Lex certainly would not have 
supposed that they were eight porpoises. 
Further Mr. Lez remarks: “If an upraised head, like that of a 
horse, was preceding them, it was either unconnected with them, 
or it certainly was not that of a snake; for no serpent could throw 
its body into those vertical undulations.” 
Very well, but if Mr. Lex wishes to explain the coils by por- 
poises, he ought to account for the head which preceded them ; 
this he silently passes by, only saying it was not that of a snake. 
A fine explanation indeed! 
10. — 17472 — (Ponrorpipan, Chapt. VIII, § 7). — “Go- 
vernor Bensrrup is said to have had some years ago a similar 
meeting with the. sea-serpent” (to Mr. von Ferry’s) “and he has 
