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proached, the animal seen through a telescope had the appearance 
of “a long chain of numerous rings, resembling a number of 
barrels linked together’. We remember that this comparison has 
often been made by different witnesses. The other comparison of 
the captain, viz.: “in form very like the back of a silk worm’”’ is 
also tolerably well chosen. “As the ship approached, these appear- 
ances became more distinct’? and the sea-serpent raised in a playful 
manner “its enormous tail, longitudinally divided into two sections, 
white and black’. We know that the animal’s head and neck are 
longitudinally divided into two sections, dark brown or nearly 
black above, and white beneath. It is, therefore, probable that 
also the trunk has a dark back and a light coloured belly. The 
supposition of this division of colours had already been made by 
Mr. Matruew GarFrngy (n°. 41, p. 169). It is, therefore, very 
remarkable that Captain d’ABnour really saw that the tail too is 
coloured black above and white beneath! The animal curled its 
tail and let it for a moment “repose on a part of” its body. Then, 
“at the other extremity” the animal elevated its foreflapper to the 
height of about two metres (six feet) from the water. The flapper 
“inclined itself at a considerable angle upon the’ body, consequently 
the animal made the same movement with its foreflapper as the 
individual afterwards witnessed by Captain Wutsz (n°. 154, fig. 50). 
At last a tail of a spermwhale or of a finwhale elevated above 
the water, “an antenna terminating in a crescent’ “to the height 
of nearly eight metres’ (about 25 feet), which tail of course has 
nothing at all to do with the sea-serpent. Captain d’ABNouR says: 
that it rose “from the water’ and he says nothing as to its relative 
position to the animal, nor whether it was close to or far from it. 
The length of at least 100 metres (about 320 feet) is at all events 
exaggerated. Evidently head and neck remained constantly under 
the water. 
The above mentioned account, translated into German, is in 
Frorp’s NVotizen, Third Series, Vol. Il, n°. 54, p. 148, 1847. 
10GB. — 1840, June? —In the Journal du Havre, of 15th 
September, 1840, (see Zoologist, 1847, p. 1716,) we read: 
“Not long since the Boston Daily Advertiser announced a new 
appearance of this marine monster, about whose existence the world 
is so naturally incredulous.” 
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