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distinctly see it with the naked eye, but to be certain, he took 
his glass and saw his eyes, neck and head, which was about as 
large as a barrel — the neck had something that looked like a 
mane upon the top of it; several times he raised his head seven 
or eight feet above the water, and for thirty or forty minutes he 
swam backward and forward with great swiftness. There were two 
other vessels near, the crews of which were in the rigging looking 
at the same object. Capt. S. states that it was very long, and that 
his head, neck and tail and his motion in the water, was exactly 
like those of a snake; every time he put his head out of water, 
he made a noise similar to that of steam escaping from the boiler 
of a steam-boat..... The Captain and crew attest to the correct- 
ness of this statement.” 
As to the swimming backward and forward, I think that Captain 
SHIBBLES meant that the animal swam to and fro, and that he 
used these expressions in reference to the direction of the brig. 
I1@2. — 1836? — Mr. Hervricn Raraxe published in the 
Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte the following evidence, which he noted 
down when being in Christiansund in Norway: | 
“The Sorenskriver Gaeschke (a kind of judge of the same rank 
as the German country-judges, or the British sheriffs) gave me the 
following evidence: I saw the sea-serpent for a considerable time 
in a small fjord, first from a boat, afterwards from the beach, 
and from there durimg several minutes, at a distance of from 
thirty to thirty-six feet. In the beginning it swam round the fjord 
at Torvig, afterwards it went towards the mouth of the fjord. I 
saw its head stretched considerably out of the water. I noticed as 
well two or three undulations of the forepart of the body. Its 
motion was not like that of an eel, but consisted in vertical undu- 
lations. They were so strong, that they caused rather large waves; 
they were largest at the forepart of the animal and gradually les- 
sened towards the back. The traces of them I discerned ima length 
of eight to ten fathoms, and in a breadth of two or three fathoms. 
The head, apparently blunt in front, had the size and nearly also 
the shape of an anker (ten-gallon cask) and the visible coils of the 
body were round and their thickness was that of a good timber- 
stock (twelve to fourteen inches square). I could not judge the 
entire length of the animal, as I could not discern the animal’s 
