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took to thew heels, when they found the monster so near them. 
The weather at the time was very hot and calm. Farther to the 
south (at Stenesden) he said it was seen several times, and it re- 
mained there for a considerable period.” | 
G5. — 1819, August. — The same author at p. 216 of his 
volume relates : 
“My honest boatmen who had brought me all the way from 
Lek6e, a distance of near sixty miles, now left me. Previous to 
their departure they gave me the following account of the sea-ser- 
pent, which is here inserted as they related it, without the least — 
variation. They were fishermen and had been up at the North Cape. 
During the time they remained there they saw the serpent twice, 
once at no very great distance from them. It was of a grey colour; 
the head blackish, with teeth. What they. discerned of it they 
judged to be at least five times the length of their boat, which 
is about thirty feet. It moved in large folds on the water; and 
when they saw it, they rowed away from it as fast as they could. 
The weather was very calm at the time.” 
This is the most northern appearance of the sea-serpent. The 
teeth are mentioned here, though not described. 
GG. — 1819? August? — The same author at p. 222 of his 
Travels tells us: 
“'l'o the testimony of others respecting the existence of the sea- 
serpent, I shall now add that of the bishop” (of the Nordlands and 
Finmark) “himself, who was eye-witness to the appearance of two 
in the bay of the Shuresund, or Sorsund, in the Drontheim fjord, 
about eight Norway miles from Drontherm. He was but a short 
distance from them, and saw them plainly. They were swimming 
in large folds, part of which was seen above the water, and the 
length of what appeared the largest he judged to be about 100 
feet. They were of a darkish grey colour; the heads hardly dis- 
cernable, from their being almost under water; and they were 
visible for only a short time. Before that period he had treated 
the account of them as fabulous; but it was now impossible, he 
said, to doubt their existence, as such numbers of respectable 
people, since that time had likewise seen them on different occasions. ” 
Not a single fact that need astonish us. That two were seen 
