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4A2 THE VARIOUS EXPLANATIONS. — [The 13th.] 
voyage’ of that vessel was also from India to England; notwith- 
standing this he cites the account of the Acushiu Maru reporting 
the appearance of a sea-serpent near the isle of Kiu Siu (Japan) 
in the Van Diemen’s Straits. Most probably the City of Baltimore 
never was there! 
In short, the error took place, and Mr. Woop sees clearly in 
the figures of the Graphic his Zeuglodon pointing out that this 
figure shows a bifurcated or fan-shaped tail, and that consequently 
the animal must be a cetacean! It is evident, that Mr. Woop 
was convinced that the Zeuglodon (read Basilosaurus) had the fol- 
lowing outlines! 
Fig. 67. — Basilosaurus, as imagined by Mr. Srarntes V. Woop Jun. 
It is clear that, before writing his postscript, he had already had 
the opportunity to read “a description of Zeuglodon cetoides’. Yet 
he holds to his idea, and does not show the great difference be- 
tween the extremely short neck of Basilosaurus and the extraor- 
dinarily Jong neck of the Sea-Serpent. This at all events must have 
struck him. 
At last I am obliged to say some words about his considerations 
of Ponroprrmpan’s Natural History of Norway. \t is clear that he 
has not read a single word of it! He says: “it is most likely that 
the Bishop concocted his two figures from accounts given him by 
Norwegian seamen’, whilst the Bishop clearly states that the first 
figure is a copy of a sketch of Mr. Brnsrrur, and the second a 
copy of the drawing of Mr. Bine. Of the latter figure Mr. Woop 
says “it is that of a serpent-like animal almost resting on the sur- 
face of the sea”. I shall be greatly obliged to any person who can 
show me a passage either in Ponroppipan’s or in KexEpr’s work, 
stating that the animal presented itself in this way “resting on the 
surface’. I refer my readers to the account itself (n°. 5), where it 
is clear that the animal must have been seen in this position for 
only the fraction of a second! 
Mr. Woop, describing the drawing of Mr. Bine underlines the 
words: in a single column, speaking of the animal’s “spouting water 
