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1838? (N°. 104, see p. 253). — Captain Brzcay made his 
voyage to the Pacific in the Blossom in the years 1825, 26, 27 
and 28. It is therefore probable that he saw the sea-serpent in one 
of these years, but also possible that he was commander of the 
Blossom before 1825 or later than 1828. 
1841, July 14. — A monster with a straight black head, 10 
feet out of the water, spouting ,,a column of water in the air’, 
but ,,it was not a whale’. — Gulf of Mexico. — SrepHen’s Cen- 
tral America, 1842, Vol. Il, p. 464. — Description too short. — 
Doubtful. — (R. P. G). 
1849. — Seen (where?) by Mr. Marsron, of Swampsott. — 
Atlantic Monthly of June, 1884. — (R. P. G). 
1854, spring. — A gigantic serpent, first called by the look-out 
man as ,,the biggest log ever seen”, afterwards rearing its snake 
like head as high as the funnel of the steamer out of the water, 
and plunging down. — Eye witnesses: Captain Prat, of the Wm. 
Scalrook, and Captain Rouuins, of the /sabe/. — Before the mouth 
of Savannah River, Georg. and 8. Car. — Miss Murray, United 
States, Canada and Cuba, 1855, Putnam & Co., New York, 
p. 235. — (RK. P. G,). 
1872. — Prof. Scuiecen in his De Dierentuin van het Koninklijk 
Zovlogisch Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra te Amsterdam, Vol. UI, 
p. 45, points out that as early as 1837 he proved (nota bene) the im- 
possibility of the existence of such a more than gigantic animal. 
1872, August 20 and 21. (N°. 137 and 138, see p. 322). — 
The following is the account which the Rev. J. Macrag sent to 
/ the Lnverness Courter, August 1872, prefaced by the Editors of 
this paper : | 
»A gentleman on whose intelligent observation and accuracy we 
have perfect reliance, sends the following account of a strange 
animal now to be seen about the West-Coast of Invernessshire and 
which, if not the veritable or traditional sea-serpent, must be the 
object so often represented under that appellation”. | 
»On Tuesday last, 20th. August, I went on a trip to Loch 
Hourn in my small sailing boat. I was accompanied by my friend, 
the Rev. Mr. T. of Kent, my two daughters, my grandson, anda 
servant lad. While we were proceeding along the sound of Sleat 
it fell calm, and we were rowing the boat, when we observed be- 
hind us a row of dark masses, which we took at the first glance 
for a shoal of porpoises; but a second: look showed that these mas- 
ses formed one and the same creature, for it moved slowly across 
