270 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, [1847. | 
apparently in the year 1840, and which he published in the Arehav 
fiir Naturgeschichte of 1841, six years later! I have inserted them 
above (n°. 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 102). As to the “discrepancies in 
the accounts’ I have already showed that there are, in fact, 
hardly any discrepancies, but that the accounts complete one an- 
other. I must also observe here that the accounts are not translated 
literally. Many, and among them very interesting passages, are 
omitted. The reader, who will convince himself of the truth of 
my assertion, has only to compare the accounts, as they are inserted 
in the Tisologist with my translations of the Cannan originals , or 
with the originals themselves. 
Mr. GossE, too, in his Romance of Natural History, 1860, 
writes: “The public papers of Norway, during the summer of 1846, 
were occupied with statements of the following effect’, and he too 
publishes extracts from the evidences printed in the <Arehw fir 
Naturgeschichte of 1841 ! 
Also Mr. Lrn, in his Sea-Monsters Unmasked, 1883, says: “In 
1847 there appeared in a London daily paper a long account 
translated from the Norse journals of fresh appearances of the sea- 
serpent.” 
And Mr. Joan Asnton in his Curious Creatures in Zoology, 
1889, asserts: “In 1847 a sea-serpent was seen frequently in the 
neighbourhood of Christiansund and Molde, by many persons, and 
by one Lars Johnéen, fisherman at Smolen, especially.” 
All these writers have copied Mr. Newman, and have therefore 
quite overlooked the fact that the originals were in the Archiv fir 
Naturgeschichte of 1841, and that the appearances took place long 
before the year 1847! 
The last number of the Zoologist for 1847 appeared in October 
of that year. The reader must know that the matter of this journal 
is arranged according to the class of the animals, treated of in each 
article. This I must mention for the better understanding of the 
following passage which Mr. Newman wrote in his preface to the 
above mentioned volume of the Zoologist. 
“In Reptiles, the communications and quotations about “the 
Sea-Serpent” are well worthy of attentive perusal: it is impossible 
to suppose all the records bearing this title to be fabricated for 
the purpose of deception. A natural phenomenon of some kind has 
