258 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS , (N°, 10Geug 
I do not think that I am wrong in fixing this appearance in 
the month of June of that year. 
LOT. — 1840, July? —In his Postscript Mr. Ravaxe (Archiv 
fiir Naturgeschichte, 1841, Vol. I) says: 
“According to a letter addressed to me by Dr. Hoffmann, a 
respectable physician in Molde, which is situated several miles 
south of Christiansund on one of the largest fjords, the school-in- 
spector Hammer, the adjunct Krarr, and some other persons, 
who in 1840 made together an excursion in a boat on this fjord, 
saw very distinctly a so-called sea-serpent of considerable length.” 
WOT? A. — 1840, August? — The Editor of the Journal du 
Havre before publishing Capt. p’ABNouR’s report (n°. 106 4) says, 
(see Zoologist, 1847, p. 1715): 
“We shall preface his narrative by the remark, that the sea- 
serpent has been recently alleged to have been seen, at different 
points along the whole line of the American coast.” 
The Editor would have done better if he had published all the 
reports of the sea-serpent, that had come within his reach. The 
reader must know that with the terms “the whole line of the 
American coast” the Editor can only have meant the east coast of 
British America and of the United States, from Newfoundland to 
Cape Canaveral, Florida. 
108. — 1841. — In a Postscript to his paper (Archiv fiir 
Naturgeschichte, 1841, Vol. 1) Mr. Raruxe tells us: 
“According to a letter which I received some time ago from 
Mr. Soern Knutszon, a sea-serpent is again seen there some weeks 
after I had left Christiansund, by several persons.’ 
The well known Mr. Hetnrich Rataxe in 1841 published in 
the Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, 7th year, Vol. I, his dissertation 
