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Se — 1827, September 5. — (The same journal, the same 
issue). 
“and to-day, off Lepager, by persons just a trustworthy as those 
who were heard before the justice. Their affidavit in principal points 
agrees with that of the former. A reward is offered to whoever 
will kill it and bring it home.” 
2). — 1827, September 9. — (The same journal, the same 
issue). — ; 
“Christiania, September 15. — Sunday last the sea-serpent ap- 
peared also off Droébak. Last week several persons saw large shoals 
of porpoises, and therefore supposed that the alleged presence of 
the former could not be true. But as among those who saw the 
sea-serpent, are many fishermen and seamen, who know very well 
how to distinguish the several sea-animals, and as it is not at all 
uncommon, that porpoises and whales of the smaller kind appear 
here in the fjord, so there is no reason to condemn the judicial 
concurrent testimonies.” 
90, DI. — 1828? The well-known Mr. Heinetcn Ratuxe, 
when on a journey in Norway, noted down the following evidence, 
which he published in the Archiv fur Naturgeschichte of 1841. 
“Nils Roe, workman at Mr. William Knutszon’s, an elderly 
and simple man, relates: I saw the serpent twice, once at noon, 
and two days afterwards towards the evening, in the fjord” (near 
Christiansund) “at the back of Mr. Knutszon’s garden. The first 
time, when it was nearest to me, it was about a hundred feet 
distant. It swam first along the fjord, afterwards over against the 
spot, where I stood. I then observed it for more than half an 
hour. Some strangers, who were on the opposite shore, fired at 
it, when it disappeared.” 
“The second time it was farther from me. It was small, perhaps 
twice as long as this room (about forty-four feet); while swimming 
it made serpentine movements, some to left and right, others up 
and down. I cannot state its correct thickness, but it appeared to 
be about as a common snake in proportion to its length. It was 
much thinner towards the tail. Several times it raised its head 
wholly above the water, but so, that it was just above the surface; 
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