250 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, (N°. 98/987: 
date July 1833. The Boston and New-York papers of that date 
state, that the Sea-Serpent had again appeared off Nahant. “It was 
first seen on Saturday afternoon, passing between Hgg-Rock and 
the Promuntory, winding his way into Lynn-Harbour, and again 
on Sunday morning, heading for South-shores. He was seen by 
forty or fifty ladies and gentlemen, who insist that they could not 
have been deceived.” 
It is evident that many reports of great sea-serpents have been 
published here and there, especially in Norwegian and North- 
American newspapers, which I have had no opportunity to consult, 
and which probably will never come within my reach. As we learn 
from Mr. Frorirp’s Wotizen, Vol. XL, n°. 879, p. 328, “Mr. R. 
Bakewell in the latest edition of his Introduction to Geology 
(1833?) states: that there are descriptions of the sea-serpent, 
wherein it is ascertained that it “has flappers like sea-turtles’. I 
have not been able to consult Mr. Baxrwetu’s work, but I insert 
this statement here, because we shall observe afterwards more than 
once this comparison of the flappers with analogous members of turtles. 
100. — 1834, Summer. — In Captain Suresies’ report (n°. 
101) a passage runs as follows: 
“One of the crew told us that his appearance and motion are 
precisely like that he saw last summer while in the bay” (of 
Gloucester) “which was said to be a sea-serpent.” 
Though no particulars are mentioned, I am convinced that the 
appearance took place. 
TOL — 1835, March or April. — (Amer. Journ. Sc. Arts Vol. 
28, 1835, July. —) | 
“Captain Shibbles, of the brig Mangehan, of Thomastown, from 
Boston, for New-Orleans, which arrived here (Gloucester, Mass. , 
March or April, 1835) on Saturday last, states that he saw when 
about nine or ten miles from Race Point light, what he, as well 
as the whole crew, supposed to be a sea-serpent, — he could 
