204. THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS , [ N°. 60.] 
of a toad, and that they are nearer to the mouth of the animal 
than to the back of the head. 
GI. — 1819, July. — A. pe Carus, Brooxe in his Travels 
through Sweden, in the Summer of 1820, says at p. 187: 
“As I had determined, on arriving at the coast, to make every 
inquiry respecting the truth of the accounts, which had reached 
England the preceeding year, of the sea-serpent having recently 
seen off this part of Norway, I shall simply give the different re- 
ports, I received of it during my voyage to the North Cape, 
leaving others to their own conclusions, and without expressing, 
at least for the present, any opinion respecting them.” 
and at p. 198: 
“From him (the postmaster Mr. Scutnprerup) I learned some 
curious particulars respecting the sea-serpent, which had caused so 
much alarm and wonder in Norway, and the report of which, as 
I have said, had even reached England. From having formerly been 
in the Norwegian sea service, he was called Captain Schilderup; 
and seemed a quick intelligent man. It appeared, that the serpent 
had actually been off the island for a considerable length of time 
during the preceding summer, in the narrow part of the Sound, 
between this island (Ottersum) and the continent; and the de- 
scription he gave of it was as follows.” 
“It made its appearance for the first time in the month of July, 
1819, off Ottersum, in the sound above mentioned. Previous to 
this he had often heard of the existence of these creatures, but 
never before believed it. During the whole of that month the weath- 
er was excessively sultry and calm; and the serpent was seen 
every day, nearly in the same part of the Sound. It continued 
there while the warm weather lasted, lying motionless, and as if 
dozing in the sun-beams. — This part of his account reminded 
me of the monster of the deep, so finely described by Milton.” 
“The number of persons living on the island, he said, was about 
thirty; the whole of whom, from motives of curiosity, went to look 
at it while it remained. This was confirmed to me by subsequent 
inquiries among the inhabitants, who gave a similar account of it. 
The first time that he saw it, he was in a boat, at a distance of 
about 200 yards. The length of it he supposes to have been about 
300 ells, or 600 feet. Of this he could not speak accurately; but 
