[N°. 121.] REPORTS AND PAPERS. 297 
“Captam Adams, of the schooner Lucy and Nancy, which arriv- 
ed at Jacksonville, Florida, on the 1** of April, from New York, 
had sight of a monster in many respects resembling the sea-monsters 
described by many others. Captam Adams states that on the morn- 
ing of Sunday, the 18th. of February, about nine o’clock, when 
off the south point of Cumberland Island, about twelve miles from 
the St. John’s (Florida) bar, the attention of himself, crew and 
passengers, was suddenly rivetted upon an immense sea monster, 
which he took to be a serpent. It lifted its head, which was that 
of a snake, several times out of the water, seemingly to take a 
survey to the vessel, and at such times displayed the largest por- 
tion of its body, and a pair of frightful fins or claws, several feet 
in length. His tail was not seen at any time; but, judging from 
the dimensions of the body, the captain supposes the leviathan to 
be about 90 feet im length. Its neck tapered small from the head 
to the body and it appeared to measure about seven feet across 
the broadest part of the back. The colour was that of a dirty 
brown. When first seen it was moving towards the mouth of the 
St. John’s. The monster moved from the side of the vessel, and 
placed itself athwart its track, in front of her bows; but Captain 
Adams, not feeling partial to an encounter with his snakeship, 
ordered the vessel to be kept off. A boy on the deck, not knowing 
his antagonist, had seized a harpoon, and was in the act of striking, 
when he was prevented by the vessel’s moving off” — “Boston Atlas’. 
At a glance we recognize the sea-serpent, as it appeared to Hans 
Herps. “The largest portion of its body” was seen, “and a pair of 
frightful fins or claws, several feet in length’. The reader may 
compare the fig. 19 in our report n°. 5. — 
122. — 1849, May 30. — (Lllustrated London News, 1850, 
January, 19. -—) | 
“lhe following is an extract from the private log of Captain 
Edwards of the Alpha. — “Wednesday, May 30, P. M., strong 
breezes at N. N. W., and a sharp sea on; about 1.15 I felt a 
strange shaking of the ship. Mr. Thomson, my chief officer; Mr. 
George Park, civil engineer, cabin passenger on board, ran on deck 
as well as myself, when we beheld immediately under our lee 
quarter a monster of huge dimensions. It had no fins or broad 
tail, as whales have. It was of a light fawn colour, with large 
