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Fig. 39 and 40.— Two positions of the Sea-Serpent as seen by the Rev. Jonn Macrae and 
the Rev. TWoPENY. 
flatter than the rest, and the nose being very slightly visible above 
the water; but we did not see the head raised above the surface 
either this or the next day, nor could we see the eye. We had 
no means of measuring the length with any accuracy, but taking 
the distance from the centre of one lump to the centre of the 
next to be six feet, and it could scarcely be less, the whole length 
of the portion visible, including the intervals submerged, would 
be forty-five feet.” 
“Presently, as we were watching the creature, it began to ap- 
proach us rapidly, causing a great agitation in the sea. Nearly the 
whole of the body, if not all of it, had now disappeared , and the 
head advanced at a great rate in the midst of a shower of fine 
spray, which was evidently raised in some way by the quick move- 
ment of the animal — it did not appear how, — and not by 
spouting. F. was alarmed and retreated to the cabin, crying out 
that the creature was coming down upon us. When within about 
a hundred yards of us it sank and moved away in the direction of 
Skye, just under the surface of the water, for we could trace its 
course by the waves it raised on the still sea to the distance of a 
mile or more. After this it continued at intervals to show itself, 
careering about at a distance, as long as we were in that part of 
the Sound, the head and a small part only of the body being visible 
on the surface; but we did not again on that day see it so near 
nor so well as at first. At one time F. and K. and G. B. saw 
a fin striking up at a little distance back from the head, but nel- 
ther of us were then observing.” 
“Qn our return the next day we were again becalmed on the 
north side of the opening of Lochourn, where it is about three 
miles wide, the day warm and sunshiny as before. As we were 
