[The 10th. | THE VARIOUS EXPLANATIONS. 41] 
I beg the reader to look over the above-mentioned passages. — Mr. 
CogswELtL had better done to omit his observation, that the ac- 
count of the French sea-captain “was qualified with so much of 
the characteristic national precision in the detail of certain forms 
and measurements’. The reader himself will in most of the accounts 
of the sea-serpent, which fill this volume, have observed the same 
“precision in details’ indifferently whether the account was record- 
ed by a Norwegian, a German, an English, a French or an 
American witness. — His observation that the sea-serpent only 
occurs “in the North Atlantic no farther south than a line swerv- 
ing from Norway in a southerly direction to Massachusetts” is 
incorrect, as the reader may already have observed himself. If he 
had read all the accounts of the sea-serpent up to his days, he 
would, of course, not have written this. The “deposition of Arch- 
deacon Dertnzort, zool. 1606” is of the 28th. of July, 1845 (n°. 
115). Mr. Coeswett cites here the passage in which he will find “an 
appearance of paddles’. The reader will probably remember that 
there was no question of paddles, but of a boiling of the water, 
which the witnesses ¢hought to have been caused by a pair of fins 
nearest the head, and which I have explained in another way. — 
Mr. Cocswe calls Mr. Newman’s suggestion, that the sea-serpents 
may belong to the Hzahosaurian type, “ingenious”. I think that 
the reader, after having read only the accounts of the sea-serpent 
up to the days of Mr. Nrewman’s suggestion, 1. e. up to 1847, 
will not be inclined to call this suggestion “ingenious”, with re- 
gard to the sea-serpent being so often reported as having a mane 
and whiskers, and swimming with vertical undulations. Moreover 
it is the question whether this suggestion was Mr. Nrewman’s or 
Mr. Ratuxy’s. 
Mr. J. D. Morrizs Stiriine too, seemed to believe that the 
sea-serpents are allied to the extinct Plesvosaur:, for he writes in 
a letter to Captain Haminron, R. N., Secretary to the Admiralty 
(See Lllustrated London News of 28th. October, 1848): 
“There are I believe, several varieties of the reptile known as 
the sea-serpent but almost all the accounts agree as to the exis- 
tence of a mane, and as to the great size of the eye. In several 
of the fossil reptiles somewhat approaching the sea-serpent in size 
and other characteristics, the orbit is very large; and in this re- 
spect, as well as having short paws or flappers, the description 
of the Northern sea-serpents agree with the supposed appearance 
of some of the antediluvian species. A great part of the disbelief 
