142 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, — [ N°. 22.] 
~~. -— 1783? — In the same letter we read: 
“People also of Mount Desert have seen the monster.” 
23. — 1784? -— In the same letter we find: » | 
“June 28th., 1809. Mr. Cummines observes that a Mr. Crocket 
saw two of them together about twenty years since’....... “One 
of those seen by Mr. Crocket was smaller than that seen by Mr. 
Cummines, and their motion in the sea appeared to be a perpen- 
dicular winding, and not horizontal.” 
This appearance is also mentioned in the Mem. Am. Acad. Arts Se. 
(1V, I, 1818) where we read about the inhabitants of Fox and 
Long Islands: 
“and one of them, a Mr. Crocker, had seen two of them togeth- 
er about the year 1787.” 
And in Sruuiman’s Am. Journ. Sc. Arts (Vol. II, 1820) we read 
in a letter from Mr. ApranamM Cummines to the Rev. AtpEN Brap- 
rorD, written Jan., 1804,: 
“About twenty years since, two of those serpents, they say, 
were seen by one Mr. Crocker, who then lived upon Ash Point.” 
The fact that there were ¢wo animals together only claims our 
attention, which is of course not wonderful, as they may have been 
a male and a female, or a mother and a young one. One of the 
two must have been quite small, as it is reported: “One of those 
was smaller than that seen by Mr. Cummines’; consequently the 
other was as large as or even larger than that seen by Mr. Cum- 
MINGS, ergo the difference in size of these two must have been 
considerable. ‘The occurrence of two together is reported only a very 
few times. Evidently these animals lead solitary lives. 
We see that the dates differ, but we will take the date of 1784, 
relying upon the words of Mr. Cummine’s letter of 1804: “about 
twenty years since’. 
~4. — 1785? — In the same letter it says: 
“Sept. 10, 1811. Have heard to day further testimony respecting 
the Sea-Serpent of the Penobscot. A Mr. Sraprzs, of Prospect, of 
whom I inquired as I passed, was told by a Mr. Mrtizr, of one 
