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once cited by writers of articles on the sea-serpent. I cannot but 
express my surprise at this custom, for there is not one single 
word or expression in Mirton’s verses, which is taken from ac- 
counts, reports, or tales of the sea-serpent itself. Watrrr Scorr, 
however, in his Pirate: which was published in 1821, vol. I, 
chapt. II, says a few words about the animal, which are so correct, 
that they must have been taken from some or other report: 
“The Ocean also had its mysteries, etc.” 
“The Sea-Snake was also known, which arising out of the depths 
of Ocean, stretches to the skies his enormous neck, covered with 
a mane like that of a war-horse, and with its broad glittering 
eyes, raised mast-head high, looks out, as it seems, for plunder 
or for victims.” 
The large glittermg eyes, the enormous neck, covered with a 
mane are known characters, and the rising from the depths high 
into the air, standing nearly upright and viewing for a moment 
all around, evidently taking a survey, is a habit observed more 
than once. 
@D. — 1821, Summer. — Col. T. H. Perxrys on the 13th. 
of Oct. 1820, when on board the dun Marie, wrote a letter to 
his friend Jno P. Cusnine, which he published in the Boston 
Daily Advertiser of 25th. Nov. 1848, after the excitement caused 
by the appearance of an individual on the 6th. of August, 1848. 
The different parts of this letter are inserted partly in our Chapter 
on Hoaxes (p. 20, 21) and partly m n°. 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 63. 
The Editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser now goes on: 
“In addition to this interesting narrative our venerable corre- 
spondent gives letters from several members of his family , who ¢he 
next summer had opportunity to see the sea-serpent, in which the 
appearance of the animal is minutely described. This correspondence 
is very interesting; the description of the animal agrees entirely 
with that given above, and we regret that want of space must 
prevent the insertion of it.” 
It is a great pity that all these letters have not been published. 
Perhaps they are now lost for ever! 
@G. — 1821. — In a letter from Wittam Warsurton to 
Ropert Barciay, Esq. printed in the Hdinburgh Journal of Science, 
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