[The 13th. | THE VARIOUS EXPLANATIONS. 4A] 
(1755) edition of whose work I possess, concocted his two figures 
(one of which is that of a huge snake undulating on the waves, 
and the other that of a serpent-like animal with pectoral flappers 
or fins, resting almost on the surface of the sea, with head and 
tail erect out of the water like the letter U, and spouting water 
or steam from its mouth 7 a single column), from accounts given 
him by Norwegian seamen, some of whom had seen the animal 
in the position in which it was observed from the Daédalus, and 
others in that in which it is represented in the cut as seen from 
the Kiushiu-maru; for in the long narrative which he gives of the 
descriptions received from observers at numerous times, some of 
these agree with the one, and some with the other, though both 
of the Bishop’s figures represent only preposterous conceptions of 
his own.” 
“(The animal seen from the Osborne, and figured in the Graphic 
of June 380, 1877, as the “Sea-Serpent’, is quite a different thing 
from the one in question, and may have been a manatee. |’ 
I shall take the liberty to make some remarks on his paper. 
The reader will remember (see n°. 118) that it was zo¢ the 
long neck of the animal, which caused the comparison of a snake, 
made by the officers of the Daedalus, but the roundness of its 
neck, the apparent roundness of the body, and the resemblance of 
the animal's head with that of a snake. 
In their reports. there is not a single estimation of the length of 
the neck. It is only said that the length of the visible part of the 
animal was about sixty feet; and now Mr. Szartes V. Woop says: 
“a neck, estimated on that occasion as sixty feet’. I don’t see the 
reason of such a deduction! 
As I have not read the “description of Zeuglodon cetoides” | 
am not able to discover the reason why it struck Mr. Woop that 
the animal seen from the Daedalus may have been a descendant 
of the order to which Zeuglodon belonged. 
We observe that Mr. Woop really believes that it was the sea- 
serpent which attacked “the whale by the long neck, the appear- 
ance being confounded into the double coil of a serpent by the 
distance and motions of the object” (See n°. 144). I will not contest 
his opinion! 
I do not know what to think of Mr. Woop, when he speaks 
of the Kzushiu Maru in connection with a relative of his. 1 may 
suppose that his relative had told him she repatriated by the 
City of Baltimore through the Indian Ocean, and that the “previous 
