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carried four or five feet above the water. He wore every appear- 
ance of a common black snake. When he dove he came up near 
Muscongus Island — we pursued him, but never came up within 
a quarter of a mile of him again.” 
“T have the honor to be sir, 
“Your friend and humble servant 
“Geo, Little.” 
It is evident that the animal moved away from the Captain, 
who thus saw only its occiput. As the head is thought to have 
nearly the size of that of a man, and the whole length to be 45 
to 50 feet, it is evident that either the head is estimated too 
small, or the length too great; moreover it is clear that the 
captain saw nearly the whole length; this sometimes occurs; gener- 
ally, however, only the foremost part is visible. Again it is men- 
tioned that the sea-serpent held its head four feet above the surface 
of the water, and that the colour was black. 
A letter from Mr. A. Mc. Lean to the Rev. ApEn Braprorp, 
printed in the same pages, contains a passage, running as follows: 
“Another was seen in Muscongus Bay in time of the American 
war, two miles from the place where I lived then.” 
I consider this passage as relative to Capt. Grorcr Lirrir’s 
observation. 
20. — 17812 — In the same letter the above mentioned lines 
are followed by the words: 
“and another soon afterwards off Meduncook”’. 
21. — 1782? — In a letter from the Rev. Mr. Wituiam JENKS , 
of Bath, to the Hon. Judge Davis, of Boston, dated September 
7, 1818, and published in the Report of 1817, we read: 
“Mr. Cummines observes, that the British saw him in their ex- 
pedition to Bagaduse”...... “The British supposed the length of 
that which they saw to be three hundred feet, but this Mr. Cum- 
MINGS imagines to be an exaggeration.” 
I think Mr. Cummines is right in this supposition. 
