164 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, [N°. 38.] 
“I, Amos Story of Gloucester, in the County of Essex, mariner , 
depose and say, that on the tenth day of August A. D. 1817, 
I saw a strange marine animal, that I believe to be a serpent, at 
the southward and eastward of Ten Pound Island, in the harbour 
in said Gloucester. It was between the hours of twelve and one 
o'clock when I first saw him, and he continued in sight for an 
hour and half. I was setting on the shore, and was about twenty 
rods from him when he was the nearest to me. His head appeared 
shaped much like the head of a sea turtle, and he carried his head 
from ten to twelve inches above the surface of the water. His head 
at that distance appeared larger than the head of any dog that I 
ever saw. From the back part of his head to the next part of him 
that was visible, I should judge to be three or four feet. He moved 
very rapidly through the water, I should say a mile in two, or 
at most, in three minutes. I saw no bunches on his back. On this 
day, I did not see more than ten or twelve feet of his body.” 
Though Mr. Story compares the animal’s head with that of a 
sea-turtle, probably because he saw it in such a direction that it 
seemed short and thick; his statement that it carried its head a 
foot above the water, and that it was larger than that of any dog 
at a distance of twenty rods, — the head may even have been of 
about two feet —, that its motion was rapid, are all mere repe- 
titions of facts well known to us. He did not see bunches on its 
back, the animal consequently swam with its body in a straight 
line, a habit we have also already met with. Just behind the head 
a part of the neck of about four feet was hidden under water, 
and then twelve feet of the animal’s body were visible again. 
39, 40. 41. — 1817, August 12, 13, 14. — (ee the 
fteport, printed in 1817). 
“1, Solomon Allen 3d. of Gloucester, in the County of Hssex , 
shipmaster, depose and say; that I have seen a strange marine 
animal, that I believe to be a sea-serpent, in the harbour in said 
Gloucester. I should judge him to be between eighty and ninety 
feet in length, and about the size ofa half barrel , apparently having 
joints from his head to his tail. J was about one hundred and fifty 
yards from him, when I judged him to be of the size of a half 
barrel. His head formed something like the head of the rattle snake , 
but nearly as large as the head of a horse. When he moved on ~ 
