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witnesses, he does not dare longer to doubt the existence of the 
sea-serpent.” 
“P. W. Deinbolt.” 
“Molde, 29th. Nov. 1845.” 
I need scarcely observe that the eye-witnesses of this appearance 
were deceived as to their opinion that the “boiling of the water 
on both sides of the head”? was caused by “two fins on the fore- 
part of the body, nearest the head”. The two fore-flappers of the 
sea-serpent are situated at rather a great distance from the head. 
The animal has a very long neck. This assertion is proved by their 
own words: “it raised its neck in the air”. If there were two fins 
near the head, large enough to cause any boiling of water, they 
would have been seen then by the persons, who would have men- 
tioned them. The so-called boiling of the water was nothing but 
the commonly observed rushing caused by the animal’s motion 
through the water. 
Lig. — 1846, August 8. — (Zoologist, 1847, p. 1608). 
“Sunds Parsonage, August 31, 1846.” 
“On Saturday, the 8th. inst., in the course between the islands 
of Sartor Leer and Ts, a sea-monster, supposed to be a sea-ser- 
pent, was seen by several persons. Early on this day as the steamer 
Biorgvin passed through Rognefjord towing a vessel to Bergen, 
Daniel Salomonson, a cotter, saw a sea-monster, whose like he 
declares he never met with although accustomed to the sea and 
its inhabitants from his earliest years. The animal came swimming 
from Rognefjord in a westerly direction towards his dwelling at 
Grénnevigskioeset, in the northern part of the parish of Sund. The 
head appeared like a Foering boat (about twenty feet long) keel 
uppermost, and from behind it raised itself forward in three, and 
sometimes four and five undulations, each apparently about twelve 
feet long: its rate appeared to be that of a light boat rowed by 
four active men. When it reached Gronnevigskioeset at a distance 
of two rifle-shots it turned with considerable noise and continued 
its course towards Lundenoes. Later about eleven o'clock on the 
same day his wife Ingeborg, in Daniel’s absence, heard a loud 
noise in the sea, and she and two little children saw a great sea 
monster, such as described above, take a northerly course, close 
by their place at such a rate that the waves were dashed on the 
