322 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, [No. 136. | 
seen in 1871, near the coast of Australia a sea-serpent , which 
was several meters in length.” 
137, 138, 139, 140. — 1872, August 20th., 21st, 
23d. and 24th. — In the Zoologist of May 1873, p. 3517, the 
following statements of high respectable gentlemen are published. 
“Appearance of an Animal, believed to be that which is called 
the Norwegian Sea-Serpent, on the Western Coast of Scotland, in 
August, 1872. By the Rev. John Macrae, Minister of Glenelg, 
Invernesshire, and the Rev. David Twopeny, Vicar of Stockbury, 
Kent.” 3 
“On the 20th. of August, 1872, we started from Glenelg in a 
small cutter, “the Leda’, for an excursion to Lochourn. Our party 
consisted , besides ourselves, of two ladies, F. and K., a gentleman 
G. B., and a Highland lad. Our course lay down the Sound of 
Sleat, which on that side divides the Isle of Skye from the 
mainland, the average of breadth of the Channel in that part 
bemg two miles. It was calm and sunshiny, not a breath of air, 
and the sea perfectly smooth. As we were getting the cutter along 
with oars we perceived a dark mass about two hundred yards 
astern of us, to the north. While we were looking at it with our 
glasses (we had three on board) another similar black lump rose 
to the left of the first, leaving an interval between; then an other 
and an other followed, all in regular order. We did not doubt its 
being one living creature: it moved slowly across our wake, and 
disappeared. Presently the first mass, which was evidently the 
head, reappeared, and was followed by the rising of the other 
black lumps, as before. Sometimes three appeared, sometimes four, 
five, or six, and then sank again. When they rose, the head ap- 
peared first, if it had been down, and the lumps rose after it in 
regular order, beginning always with that, next the head, and 
rising gently; but when they sank, they sank all together, rather 
abruptly, sometimes leaving the head visible. It gave the impression 
of a creature crooking up its back to sun itself. There was no 
appearance of undulation: when the lumps sank, other lumps did 
not rise in the intervals between them. The greatest number we 
counted was seven, making eight with the head, as shown in the 
sketch N°. 1. The parts were separated from each other by inter- 
vals of about their own length, the head being rather smaller and 
