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crew .of one boat saw it coming towards them, with the wind, 
and its head high above water. One of the crew pronounced its 
head as large as a little boat, and each of its eyes as large as a 
plate. The men were much terrified, but the monster offered them 
no molestation. — From those who saw it, I could get no interest- 
ing particulars additional to those above mentioned.” 
-. The dimensions given to the head and eye may be exaggerated. 
It is remarkable that the animal is so often coming in the neigh- 
bourhood of a boat, and is yet perfectly harmless. This confirms 
my supposition expressed above that the animal is sometimes very 
inquisitive. PontropprpaAN would say “it thought to see the other 
sex, for it was pairing time!” 
The whole letter from Mr. Macrean to the Secretary of the 
Wernerian Society is reprinted in Dr. Hamirton’s Ampébious 
Carnivora (a volume of Jarpinr’s WNaturalist’s [nbrary), 1839, 
without any remark or explanation. | 
ebeb. — 18102 —- Sir Watrer Scorrv in the Notes to The Pirate 
says, according to Mr. Asuton (Curious Creatures in Zoology , 1889) : 
“The author knew a mariner, of some reputation in his class, 
vouch for having seen the celebrated Sea-Serpent. It appeared as 
far as could be guessed, to be about a hundred feet long, with 
the wild mane and fiery eyes which old writers ascribe to the 
monster.” 
I am convinced that the adjectives “wild” and “fiery” and the 
phrase “which old writers ascribe to the monster’ are no additions 
made by the mariner, who simply may have told that the sea- 
serpent seen by him was about a hundred feet long, had a mane 
like a horse, or resembling sea-weed , and had red eyes. Unluckily 
neither the date, nor the locality is mentioned. The date cannot 
be far back from 1820; so I have chosen 1810, but of the locality 
of course nothing can be guessed. 
34 35 — 1815, June 20 and 21. — In the Report of a 
Committee, of 1817, we read that this Committee wrote a letter 
to Mr. Samugn Davis, of Plymouth, requesting him to examine 
upon oath some respectable men of that place, with regard to the 
appearance of the animal in 1815. This letter runs as follows: 
