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to those of a horse (this definition was caused by the heavy eye- 
brows and by the little bunch above each eye). The whole descrip- 
tion is exactly that of our animal in the above-mentioned position 
and seen from a certain direction. For “eight gills’ we may safely 
read “eight gillsplits’, or eight splits caused by and lying between 
nine folds or wrinkles, which in their turn are caused by the 
animal bending its head rectangularly towards the throat. Such 
folds or wrinkles are also seen in sea-lions, when they make the 
same motion, and stout corpulent persons will know what is meant 
by a double chin! 
o¢.— 1818, July? — Mr. A. pe Cavent, Brooke in his 7ravels 
through Sweden in 1820, p. 187, says: — | 
“The fishermen at Sejerstad said a sea-serpent was seen two 
years ago in the Folden Fjord, the length of which, as far as it 
was visible was 60 feet. This had been told them by those who 
had seen it in the Folden.” 
2. — 1818, August? — At p. 203 the same author mentions: 
“On being asked (viz. the merchant of Fieldvigen) his opinion 
respecting the serpent, he said he had never seen it himself, though 
others had in that neighbourhood.” 
29. — 1818, August 19.— In 1818 in the United States many 
rewards were offered to whalers to catch the animal, and many 
attempts were made to do this, and to bring it home, dead or 
alive. Amongst others this was the case at Boston. In the copy of 
the Report of a Committee of 1817, which I borrowed from the 
Library of the Royal University of Gottingen , there was a paragraph 
from a newspaper of August 21, 1818, the head or title of which 
was not noted down; the cutting runs as follows: 
“Boston Aug. 21.” 
“Transmitted by our N. Y. correspondents.” 
“Capt. Rich, who went from here a few days since, in pursuit 
of the sea-serpent, writes the concern as follows: 
