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“of a greenish hue” I will only say that it is unique. The “stream 
of foamy stuff resembling long shavings from a pine plank’ was 
of course nothing but a sudden exhalation, probably held for some 
time from curiosity and fear, and then suddenly sent forth. The 
locality where the sea-serpent appeared , may be apparently strange, 
it is, however, very well explicable, owing to the animal’s habit 
of frequenting shores, and to the habit of other pinnipeds of fre- 
quenting brackish water and even mouths of large rivers. — 
159. — 1886, August? — In the same number of the Graphic 
it says: 
“The serpent was also seen by the captain of a steamer, who 
de) eho) 
“save it the right of way”. 
1G0.— 1886, August? — (On the same page): 
“And yet another man (appropriately) named Jonah, who at 
first took the monster to be an immense tree floating with the 
tide — a notion which was quickly dispelled by the supposed tree 
throwing twenty feet of its length out of water.” 
As the reader will remember, the comparison of the sea-serpent, 
swimming or lying on the surface, with a floating tree or log of 
wood, has been made more than once; evidently the animal raised 
its enormous neck for a moment out of water, to take a look-out. 
I1GL.— 1889, May. — In the Haagsche Courané of June 6, of 
this year, I read: 
“The sea-serpent has again appeared, and been seen by a captain 
sailmg from Liverpool to Philadelphia, who hitherto obstinately 
refused to believe in its existence.” 
Of course I immediately wrote to the Editor, begging him for 
the name of the journal, from which this statement had been taken. 
The Editor courteously answered that one of his correspondents 
had forwarded him a written copy of the account taken from the 
38th. number of the Grondwet of May 21st., of this year, published 
in Holland, Michigan, but the written copy had already disappear- 
