232 | THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, [N°. 80] 
Prof. Bensamin Sintuiman adds to it a 
“Remark of the Hditor. — The distance of the place of obser- 
vation being several hundred miles from the nearest coast, this 
serpent. must have been a denizen of the ocean; for the huge land 
snake of South America could not navigate so far out to sea if 
indeed they ever take to the ocean at all. The snake was perfectly 
quiet, and appeared quite comfortable and at home on the waves. 
We must therefore consider this case as settling the question of 
the real existence of a Sea-Serpent. The absence of paddles or arms 
forbids us from supposing that this was a swimming saurian.” 
We may observe here that all the characters of the sea-serpent 
of Prof. Strniman’s acquaintance agree with those which are already 
known to us, and that the supposition or negative explanation of 
Prof. Sinniman, that this sea-serpent was not a swimming saurian 
is at least premature, for the assertion of the eye-witness that 
“nothing like a fin was seen” does not prove an “absence of padd- 
les or arms’, which of course remained hidden under water! 
9 — 1824, Summer. — In Frorinp’s Wotizen of Oct. 1824, 
Vol. Vill, n°. 168, p: 2185) we’ read: 
“The American Sea-Serpent is said to have appeared again this 
summer. A Mr. Ruggles in Bristol County, has, as is mentioned 
by the Newburyport Journal, seen it off Plum-Island and in Shad 
Cove at a distance of about 100 feet. The head was two feet long 
and of a brown colour. Mr. R. could distinctly observe the teeth 
in the mouth when opened. He could not discern the tail, but 
several times, about thirty feet behind the head, he observed parts 
of the animal in an undulating motion”. 
Though this is not the first time that the teeth are mentioned 
to have been seen, yet now again no description of them is given. 
$2. — 1825? — In a paper by Dr. T. S. Train, printed 
in n°. 44, May, 1854, of the Proceedings of the Royal Society 
of Edinburgh, we read: | 
“That in the ocean such animals do exist, have been affirmed — 
by persons worthy of credit. I shall notice an unpublished instance 
related to me many years ago by my intelligent friend, the late 
