226 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS , [N°. 76. ] 
Vol. VI, 1827, p. 180, and dated 20 th. September 1826, we read: 
“T dined one day at the Hotel of New York with Sir Isaak 
Coffin, who discredited the existence of such an animal, which was 
reported to have been seen by Captain Bennett of Boston, about 
five years back.” 
Of course the occurrence took place near the coast of the U. S. 
@@. — 1821, September 25? In Frorter’s Notizen of Jan. 
1822, 1, we read: 
“The Sea-Serpent, of which much has been spoken of late years, 
has been clearly seen again this year by many persons with spy- 
glasses, and it is described by all of them and the descriptions 
agree pretty well with each other: on Sept. 27 last a distinguished 
merchant of Nantucket, Mr. Francis Joy, jun. made a declaration 
of it on oath before the justice of the peace.” 
‘@S. — 1821? — Dr. Hisserv in his Description of the Shetland 
Islands says at p. 565: | 
“T have heard, in Shetland, of a sea-serpent being seen off the 
Isle of Stenness, Vailey Island and Dunrossness.” 
This report is also quoted by Dr. R. Hamirron in his Amphibious 
Carnivora, 1839. 
79. — 1822. — Mr. A. pe Caperi Brooke in his Travels 
through Sweden, &., 1823, says m a note, p. 416: 
“In some very recent accounts I have received from Finmark , 
founded on respectable authority, the sea-serpent is stated to have 
appeared off Sorde this last summer (1822) and to have been seen 
by many of the inhabitants of that Island. The length of the animal 
is described as about a fourth of an English mile, its size that of 
a full grown ox; the colour of a greyish brown; and the weather 
when it made its appearance, calm and fine.” 
Fear must have enlarged its length: the diameter, the colour, 
the calmness of the weather, however, are all correct. 
Mr. A. pe Capett Brooke in his Travels through Sweden §c., 
1823, at p. 403 tells us a remarkable fact, viz. the striking agree- 
