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water just as it passed the stern of the boat so closely that they 
could have thrown a boathook into it. By subsequent measurements 
on land the length of the animal was estimated at about 200 feet. 
It pursued its course on the surface of the sea until close behind 
the boat when it went down with a tremendous noise, but reap- 
peared a little after, shaping its course for the Melo, where it 
disappeared from view. Naturally, the lads were greatly frightened. 
The weather at the time was hot, calm, and sunny. Our in- 
former states that the lads are intelligent and truthful, and that 
there is no reason to discredit their unanimous statement, made, 
as it were, in a terribly frightened condition. It might be added 
that the waters in which the animal was seen are some of the 
deepest on the Norwegian coast, and that it is not the first time 
fishermen have averred having seen the sea-serpent here. The existence 
of the sea-serpent is fully believed in along the coast of Norway.” 
The sea-serpent in its rapid motion made, as is often stated, 
the water curl before its throat, which rushing sound was distinctly 
heard by the lads. Notwithstanding their great fright they yet saw 
the head was flat, but they were mistaken as to its being scaly. 
Moreover the account is unvarnished and the description of the ani- 
mal’s motions is correct. 
Mr. W. E. Hoyrur, busy on the article “Sea-Serpent” for the 
9th. Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1886 
(June?) a number of titles of books and journals, which came in 
his way while studying the subject. This bibliography contains 89 
numbers. They were printed, as the author says: “in the hope 
that they might be the means of saving time and labor on the 
part of others’. Alas, his hope has not been realized on my part, 
for | had nearly finished my work when I happened to find Mr. 
Hoyuz’s paper quoted in the decennial Register of the Zoologischer 
Anzeiger. Only 25 of the numbers published by Mr. Horie were 
new additions to my “Literature on the subject’, and I could 
consult only three of them, amongst which Mr. Hoyur’s article 
“Sea-Serpent” in the Hucyclopedia Brittannica quoted above. 
Though Mr. Hoyt states: “no satisfactory explanation has yet 
been given of certain descriptions of the sea-serpent’, among others 
of “the huge snake seen by certain of the crew of the Pauline” 
(n’. 144, 145) and of “Lieutenant Hayne’s account” (n°. 148), 
