150 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS , [ 1804. | 
of further information, and lead to a particular history of this 
hitherto undescribed Serpent. 
“I am with great esteem 
“Your humble servant 
“A. Bradford.” 
The four letters above mentioned and marked 4, B, C, and 
D, are already inserted in their right places. I refer my readers 
to n°. 29, where the letters marked 4 and B are copied, to n°. 
19, where that marked C is inserted, and to n°. 17, where the 
letter marked D will be found back. 
BO. — 1805? Mr. Rarinesave Scumaurz (Phil. Mag. LIV, 
1819) in his Additions to his dissertation, says: 
“4. Mr. W. Lee has brought to notice another Sea-Snake, seen 
by him many years ago near Cape Breton and Newfoundland, 
which was over 200 feet long, with the back of a dark green: it 
stood in the water in flexuous hillocks, and went through it with 
impetuous noise. This appears to be the largest on record and 
might well be called Pelamits monstrosus; but if there are other 
species of equal size, it must be called then Pelamis chloronotis , 
or Green-back Pelamis.”’ 
The length of 200 feet is estimated more than once, though in 
many instances probably exaggerated. The definition of the colour 
to be a dark green one, we have already explained above, discuss- 
ing the report of Mr. Cummines. The flexuous hillocks are of course 
nothing else but the vertical undulations, the impetuous noise is 
caused by the fore-flappers as will be stated afterwards. Of Mr. 
RaFinesaur’s determination I will say nothing, because it isa false 
one and a proof of his credulity. 
ob. — 1808, June. — At a meeting of the Wernerian Natural 
History Society on the 13th. of May, 1809 (Péi. Mag., Vol. 33, 
p. 411) “the Secretary read a letter from the Rev. Mr. Macizan 
of Small Isles, mentioning the appearance of a vast Sea-Snake , 
between 70 and 80 feet long, among the Hebrides, in June, 1808.” 
This letter is printed in the first Volume of the Memoirs of the 
Wernerian Natural History Society (1811) and runs as follows: ~ 
