[N°. 155.] REPORTS AND PAPERS. 369 
155. — 1882, September 3. — (Nature, 1883, January 25). 
“Believing it to be desirable that every well-authenticated obser- 
vation indicating the existence of large sea-serpents should be per- 
manently registered, | send you the followmg particulars.” 
“About 3 p. m. on Sunday, September 3, 1882, a party of 
gentlemen and ladies were standing at the northern extremity of 
Llandudno pier, looking towards the open sea, when an unusual 
object was observed in the water near to the Little Orme’s Head, 
travelling rapidly westwards towards the Great Orme. It appeared 
to be just outside the mouth of the bay, and would therefore be 
about a mile distant from the observers. It was watched for about 
two minutes, and in that interval it traversed about half the width 
of the bay, and then suddenly disappeared. The bay is two miles 
wide, and therefore the object, whatever it was, must have travel- 
led at the rate of thirty miles an hour. It is estimated to have been 
fully as long as a large steamer; say 200 feet; the rapidity of its 
motion was particularly remarked as being greater than that of 
any ordinary vessel. The colour appeared to be black, and the 
motion either corkscrew like or snake-like, with vertical undulations. 
Three of the observers have since made sketches from memory , 
quite independently of the impressions left on their minds, and 
on comparing these sketches, which slightly varied, they have 
agreed to sanction the 
accompanying outline | Ee 
as representing as near- Se 
ly as possible the object. ————_————_—_—_——— 
which they saw. The 
party consisted of W. 
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. Fig. 51. — Outline of the sea-serpent seen near Little Orme’s 
Barfoot , J. P. of Lei- Head, drawn by Mr. F. T. Mott after three different sketches 
cester, F. J. Marlow, 
solicitor, of Manchester, Mrs. Marlow, and several others. ‘They 
discard the theories of birds or purpoises as not accounting for 
this particular phenomenon.” 
SEY, Motte 
“Bristal Hill, Leicester, January 16.” 
The appearance took place, as is stated, near Orme’s Head, a 
headland of the Northern coast of Wales, projecting in a north- 
western direction into the Irish Sea. The great rapidity of the mo- 
vement through the water, estimated at thirty miles an hour, its 
great length of about 200 feet, its black colour, its vertical undu- 
lations and the whole external appearance of the animal, outlines 
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