1 A, THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, [ Noe 
27. — 1794? — In the same letter from the Rev. Mr. Jenxs, 
printed in the Report of 1817, we find: 
“Mr. Cummings observes that the inhabitants of Fox and Lowe 
Islands have seen such an animal’...... 
“When he was seen by the inhabitants of Fox and Long Islands 
two persons were together at both times.” 
It is clear that the year 1794 must be fixed as the date fat 
one of the two times, for in the letter from Mr. Cummrnes to the 
Rev. ALDEN Rudeeeenn written in Jan., 1804, and printed in the 
second volume of SiniiMan’s American Journal of Science and Arts, 
(1820), we find the following passage: 
“A few years before, perhaps ten years since, two of those large 
serpents were seen by two other persons on that Island” (Fox 
Island) “as their neighbours informed me.” | 
Again two individuals were seen together. 
28. — 17992? — And the date of the second time, that the 
animal was seen, must be the year 1799, for in the same letter 
from Mr. Ginaaunes (1804), it says: 
“two young men of Fox Island, intelligent and credible, saw 
an animal of this kind about five years since, as they then informed 
me. They told me, that the serpent which they saw was about 
sixty feet long, and appeared to have an ascending and descending 
motion.” 
29. — 1802 July. — In the letter from the Rev. Mr. Wint1am 
Jenks, of Bath, to the Hon. Judge Davis, of Boston, dated 
September 17, 1817, and published in the Heport of 1817, we read: 
“June 28th. 1809. The Rev. Mr. ABranam Cummines who has 
been much employed in Missions in the District of Maine, and 
navigated his own boat among the islands, &. in the discharge 
of his duty, informs me, in conversation, which was immediately 
written from his lips, that in Penobscot bay has been occasionally 
seen within these thirty years, a sea-serpent, supposed to be about 
sixty feet in length, and of the size of a sloop’s mast. Rev. Mr. 
CumMINGS saw him, in company with his wife and daughter, and 
a young lady of Belfast, Marrua Sprine; and judged he was about 
