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the Rev. Maclean” (n°. 31) “might be considered as such an animal.” 
These words convince me of the fact that Mr. Ericuson, like 
Mr. Rartuke firmly believed that there are in the Norwegian seas 
animals still unknown to them, which are called ,,sea-serpents’. 
109. — 1842? — (Times, Nov. 4, 1848). — 
“A parish priest residing on Romsdal fjord, about two days 
journey south of Drontheim, an intelligent person, whose veracity 
I have no reason to doubt, gave me a circumstantial account of 
one, which he had himself seen. It rose within 30 yards of the 
boat in which he was, and swam parallel with it for a considerable 
time. Its head he described as equalling a small cask in size, and 
its mouth, which it repeatedly opened and shut, was furnished 
with formidable teeth; its neck was smaller, but its body — of 
which he supposed that he saw about half on the surface of the 
water — was not less in girth than that of a moderate sized horse.’’ 
(Part of a letter from “OxonrENnsts’’). — 
TiO. — 1842? — “Another gentleman, in whose house | 
stayed, had also seen one, and gave a similar account of it: it 
also came near his boat upon the fjord, when it was fired at, upon 
which it turned and pursued them to the shore, which was luckily 
near, when it disappeared” (Also a part of the letter from Oxon- 
rENsIs, Zimes, Nov. 4, 1848). 
i 1843, Summer. — In Frortep’s Neue Notizen, Vol. 
XXVIII, n°. 606, p. 184, Nov. 1848, we read: 
“Some months ago the sea-serpent again appeared between the 
islets and inlets of the fjord of Christiansund.” 
— 
BED A. — 1843, October? — (Frorrer’s Neue Notizen, Vol. 
28, n°. 606, p. 184). 
“The Editors of the Christiansands Posten add the following re- 
marks: “This whole description accurately fits on an appearance, 
