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“In the month of August, in the last year, he again made his 
appearance in our vicinity, and under very satisfactory circumstances. 
The weather being hot, many of our citizens resorted to Nahant 
to pass a few weeks. On the number were Mr. and Mrs. Cabot 
and their children. Mr. Cabot had a view of him for more than 
half an hour at one time. He was in a chair, and had reached 
what is termed the long beach, when he saw several persons col- 
lected half a mile from him, which called his attention to the 
object which occupied them. Mr. C. had heard me often describe 
the view I had had of the serpent in 1817, and recognized in 
what was visible just without the brakers, and within a quarter 
of a mile, the monster which was supposed by many to exist 
nowhere but in the imaginations of those who had reported to have 
seen him. Mr. Cabot immediately rode back to Nahant; took Mrs. 
Cabot into his chair and returned to the beach; but the animal 
was no longer visible. By this time the mnhabitants of Lynn had 
assembled to the number of some hundreds, on and near the beach, 
and all the visitors of Nahant were upon the alert. Having given 
over the hope of seeing him, Mr. Cabot was returning to leave 
his wife at her lodgings, when, to their mutual delight, he came 
in view just without the surf of the little beach, and within a 
quarter of a mile or less of where they stood.” 
“Marshal Prince, James Magee, and many persons of my ac- 
quaintance had a fine sight of him, and all agreed in their account 
of him in the principal particulars. They all agreed as to the 
rapidity of his movements, being very much beyond anything living 
they had ever seen. The apparent bunches on his back they con- 
sider as arising from the construction of his body, and that the 
movement was vertical and not horizontal. At one time his head 
was about two or three feet above water, but soon depressed to 
the level of the sea. When not swimming to be in persuit of his 
prey, his motion was not rapid. They saw him turn and bring 
his body into a letter S, the head being at right angles with the 
tail. From fifteen to twenty three bunches, or apparent bunches, 
were counted by the different persons who saw him, and his size 
round they thought to be that of a common firkin or half barrel”. 
“No one thought they saw the whole of the body at a time, 
the tail seeming always to be considerably under water. The great- 
est length given to him- was one hundred feet and no one who 
had a good sight of him thought him less than eighty feet in 
length. If the number of protuberances is twenty-three (and it 
