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remember the report of Hans Ee@Epr (n°. 5) and that of Capt. 
Brown (n°. 56). Remarkable, too, is the fact that the sea-serpent 
now made its appearance in a gale of wind. Is this not a matter 
of surprise as everywhere else is stated that it appears only in five 
weather? Is it not reasonable therefore, to conclude that the animal 
feels comfortable in fine weather, but that, being an air-breathing 
animal it must come to the surface from time to time and may 
consequently be seen at times when there is wind? There is the 
statement of Captain M’Quuaz, who speaks of a “breeze” and 
here we meet with “a gale of wind’. It is also worthy of our 
notice that Capt. Cristmas mentions the immense shoal of porpoises 
rushing by the ship, as if pursued, and a sea-serpent making its 
appearance. I need not remind my readers of the same observation 
of some gentlemen near Nova Scotia (n°. 97). Later on we shall 
have the report in which a sea-serpent gripped “a whale” (of the 
smaller kind) in its fin, and we have already learned that a sea- 
serpent (n°. 54) was engaged with “a whale” (of the smaller kind). 
Not less important is the description of the long neck, moving 
like that of a swan, and disappearing head foremost like a duck 
diving. Nearly exactly the same thing was observed in 1879, April 5. 
The thickness of the neck was that of a man’s waist, the part 
above the water measured eighteen feet in length, and yet the 
foreflappers remained hidden under water. The head is described 
as resembling that of a horse, which may be the result of the 
animal bearing a mane, and when first rising out of the water, 
holding its head in a nearly right angle with the neck. Moreover 
the nostrils might have been widely opened. The animal of Capt. 
M’Quuaet had also a neck of one foot and a third in diameter; 
head and neck had a length of about twenty feet, for at about 
twenty feet in the rear of the head was seen the animal’s fore 
flapper. So we may conclude that these two individuals were of 
the same or nearly of the same length. 
12S. — 1853? — Dr. Trarur says in the Proceedings of the 
fioyal Society at Edinburgh, n°. 44, May, 1854, that it “is said 
to have been seen lately in some of their fjords.”’ 
