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A testimony on oath was forwarded by Capt. Crasrrez to the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, “but this was lost or 
mislaid.”” — Fortunately, however, the notice was afterwards found 
back, and, as Prof. Biarnow (see Suaiman’s Am. Journ. Sc. Arts 
Vol. I) says, “is now in the hands of the corresponding Secretary 
of the Academy,” Mr. Jonn Q. Apams, “where it may be seen.” 
Mr. A. Braprorp anxious to have all the mformation he could 
get, did not rest satisfied till he had a testimony of Capt. CraBrres. 
Capt. CrastreE, however, at that time an old man did not write 
this testimony himself, but had it written by another in his pre- 
sence and signed it as a correct statement. It is published in the 
above mentioned Journal, Vol. IJ, and runs as follows: 
“Capt. CraBrrEE, now of Portland, (late of Fox Islands, in the 
Bay of Penobscot), declares, that in the year 1777 or 1778, upon 
information of a neighbour, that a large serpent was in the water, 
near the shore, just below his house, and having often been told 
by individuals that they had before seen a similar sea-monster in 
that quarter, and doubting of the correctness of their reports, was 
induced to go down to the water to satisfy his own mind — that 
he saw a large animal, in the form of a snake, lying almost 
motionless in the sea, about thirty rods from the bank where he 
stood — that his head was about four feet above water — that, 
from the appearance of the animal, he was 100 feet in length — 
that he did not go off to the animal through fear of the conse- 
quences, and that he judged him to be about three feet diameter; 
he also says, that before that time, many people, living on those 
islands, on whose reports he could depend, had declared to him 
that they had seen such an animal — and that more than one 
had been seen by several persons together.” 
“Signed” “HLEAZAR CRABTREE.” 
We have again the statement that the sea-serpent held its head 
four feet above the surface of the water; its length was estimated 
at 100 feet, its diameter three feet; it was evidently this slender- 
ness which led Capt. Crasrrex to compare the sea-serpent with a 
snake. The undulations are not mentioned, consequently most pro- 
bably it lay stretched out. 
> — 1779. — (Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts Sc. Vol. IV. P. 1). 
“It appears by papers sent to the Academy in the year 1810, 
