PN? 118. | REPORTS AND PAPERS. 
transmission to my Lords Commissioners 
of the Admiralty by to-morrow’s post.” 
“Peter M’Quhae, Captain.” 
to) Admiral Sir W. Hi Gage, G. C: 
H., Devonport.” 
In the Lrterary Gazette of Oct. 21st., 
1848, the Editor published an engraving 
of Ponroprrpan’s representation, and adds 
some accompanying conclusions, appended 
to copious extracts from the learned Bish- 
ops work: 
“We have now only to point to the very 
remarkable resemblance between Captain 
M’Quhae and Pontoppidan’s description. 
One might fancy the galant Captain had 
read the old Dane, and was copying him, 
when he tells of the dark brown colour 
and white about the throat, and the neck 
clothed as if by a horse’s mane or a bunch 
of sea-weed — the exact words of the his- 
-torian. This snake, however, did not seem 
to care for the fresh wind and ruffish weather, 
but kept, as in the calm, its head several 
feet above the water, and stretched out its 
length so as to be visible for some sixty 
or eighty feet. The motion was not percept- 
ibly impelled by vermicular or lent-serpent 
action! Had it then large fins? There must 
be some power. The picture engraved in 
the folio represents it like a series of six 
barrels, or risings, with the intermediate 
parts under the sea.” 
In the J/ustrated London News of Oct. 
28st. was reprinted all that has been men- 
tioned above, and there appeared three re- 
presentations of the sea-serpent , as seen from 
the Daedalus , which I here show my readers 
in fig. 28 , 29 and 30, omitting, however, the 
ship's stern, because the drawings would be 
too large for our pages. The Editor of the Z/- 
lustrated London News adds: 
18 
The Sea-Serpent, as seen by the officers of the Daedalus. 
Fig. 28. 
