370 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, [ Ne. 155. | 
of which are represented in the figure, at once betray the sea- — 
serpent. 
Another correspondent of Mature immediately wrote to the Edi- 
tor as follows: “I have seen four or five times something like what 
your correspondent describes and figures, at Llandudno, and have 
no doubt whatever that phenomenon was simply a shoal of por- 
poises. I never, however, saw the ead your correspondent gives.” 
There! It is just the head which shows that the animal seen by 
the party of gentlemen and ladies above mentioned, was one single 
animal and not a row of porpoises! 
And therefore, one of the eye-witnesses, Mr. W. Barroor, 
promptly answered in WVature of Febr. 8, 1883: 
“Like your correspondent, Mr. Sidebotham (in Wature Vol. 
XXVII, p. 315), I have frequently seen a shoal of porpoises in 
Llandudno Bay, as well as in other places, and on the occasion 
referred to by Mr. Mott, in Mature, Vol XXVII, p. 293, the 
idea of porpoises was at first started but immediately abandoned. 
I will venture to suggest that no one has seen a shoal of these 
creatures travel at the rate of from twenty five to thirty miles an 
hour. I have seen whales in the ocean, and large flocks of sea- 
birds, such as those of the eider-duck, skimming its surface; but 
the strange appearance seen at Llandudno on September 3 was not 
to be accounted for by porpoises, whales, birds, or breakers, an 
opinion which was shared by all present.” 
“William Barfoot.” 
In 1883 Mr. Henry Leer published his Sea Monsters Unmasked, 
one of the Series of publications of the International Fisheries Exhibi- 
tion. This delightful book treats of the Kraken and the sea-serpent. 
In the Preface Mr. Lez remarks: 
“In treating of the so-called “sea-serpent”, I have been antici- 
pated by many able writers. Mr. Gosse, in his delightful book 
“The Romance of Natural History”, published in 1862, devoted 
a chapter to it; and numerous articles concerning it appeared in 
various papers and periodicals.” 
“But, for the information from which those authors have drawn 
their inferences, and on which they have founded their opinions, 
they have been greatly indebted, as must be all who have seriously 
to consider this subject, to the late experienced editor of the Zoo- 
logist, Mr. Edward Newman, a man of wonderful power of mind, 
