378 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, [N°. 161. | 
ed in the paper-basket, and the correspondent requested to send 
the original, answered that he was unable to do so for the same 
reason. 
In the first days of December 1889, Mr. Joun Asuron published 
his Curious Creatures in Zoology. Pages 268—278 of his volume 
treat of the sea-serpent. The illustrations which accompany this 
part are: 1. A representation of a piece of sculpture on a wall of 
the Assyrian palace at Khorsabad, which as I believe, has nothing 
at all to do with the sea-serpent, but which is a bad drawing of 
a Hydrophis. 2. The drawing of GEsNER (our fig. 16) twice reduced. 
3. HGEDE’s sea-serpent, as it was published in Ponroppipan (our 
fig. 22). 4. An eel-kind taken from ALprovanpus’ work, and 5. A 
reduced copy of Captain M’Quuar’s sea-serpent (our fig. 28). — 
Curious is Mr. Asuron’s assertion, when speaking of the sea- 
serpent of Khorsabad-palace and of AristorELEs: “These ........ 
were doubtless marine snakes, which are still in existence, and 
are found in the Indian Ocean, but the larger ones seem to have 
been seen in more northern waters’. Consequently he believes, like 
Mr. Anprew Whitson that the Hydrophidae may develop gigant- 
ically and when in this condition make little trips from their 
common tropical residences to more northern latitudes! 
Further he quotes Otaus Maenus, Grsner, Topseii, ALpRo- 
VANDUS, PonroppipaAN, and Hexrpz, but all by the way. 
More space is devoted to the accounts of WauttER Scorr, and 
to the observations of Mr. Macuran (n°. 31), of a party of British 
officers (n°. 97), of Lars JoHNéEN (n°. 92), of Captain M’QuaaE 
(n°. 118), and of Lieutenant Haynzs (n°. 148). All this, however, 
without giving the least explanation, and ending with these words: 
“1 think the verdict may be given that its existence although 
belonging to “Curious Zoology’, is not impossible, and can hardly 
be branded as a falsehood.” 
162. — 1890, June. — De Amsterdammer, Weekblad voor Ne- 
derland, of July 12th. of this year, mentions: | 
“The sea-serpent again. — Captain David Tuits, of the British 
schooner Anny Harper, has been favoured with a sight of it, near 
Long Island, not far from the coast of Connecticut. He is a per- 
