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(under water), and doubled again in shore, but so rapidly as to 
leave both outward and inward “ridge” on the water distinctly 
visible at once, like a wide V with quite a sharp corner. It gave 
me the idea of two fishes, the one darting outward, the other 
crossing its track inward at the same moment.” 
“Not knowing where it might show up next, but satisfied that 
it had come in-shore again, I tried by ee seaward to direct 
M’ Guire’s attention that way . 
“Just as | met him the fish again came to the surface, showing 
gradually more and more of his lene. till, when he was nlmost 
at rest, and all apparently was in view, I estimated the length to 
be 60 feet, straight and taper, like a long spar, with the butt 
end, his head and shoulders, showing well above the surface.” 
“IT can only describe the head as like the end of a log, bluff, 
about two feet diameter; on the back we noticed, showing very 
distinctly above water, several square-topped fins.” 
“T here make an exact tracing from Mr. Brown’s letter of his 
sketch: — 
“It was now getting 
rather too dark to see mee 5 Nese Ly ee 
details distinctly. The |. Ge SE a eee a 
1g. . utile of. € pack O e sea-serpent as seen 
fish proceeded toward by the Rev. H. W. Brown. 
Lockville, and I turn- 
ed homeward. M’ Guire said he would go on to Lockville jetty 
and look out for him there.” 
“Whether he saw him again I know not, but M’ Mullan, the 
fisherman, told me next morning that he had seen it about fifty 
yards trom that jetty, and it looked to him about twenty feet — 
long. So it did to me while in motion; only when at rest for a 
moment did its whole length show up sufficiently. What its pro- 
pelling power was I cannot say from observation; I saw no lateral 
fins and no fish-tail.”’ 
“When it started away at the sound of my voice, it was with 
the rapid movement of a pike or sword-fish, and yet the thick 
bluff head had but little resemblance to a snake.” 
“There was an unusual abundance of fish close in shore the same 
afternoon, yet when I saw the stranger there were certainly no 
fish of which it could be in pursuit.” 
“Since the year 1848, when the captain and officers of a British 
man-of-war gave evidence that they passed within 100 yards of a 
snake, which they estimated to be 60 feet in length above water, 
