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sweep across the mouth of the Loch came towards us, and passed 
not far outside the boat. I distinctly heard its rush through the 
water, just under the surface; the first waves it made, were un- 
broken, but some way from the head the water was broken, and 
foaming’. 
“Later, at 9 P. M. just as we neared Glenelg sailing and rowing , 
and with a good deal of ripple on the sea, we saw it coming 
straight astern, then it turned away northward and passed out of 
sight through Kyle Rhea”. 
“Kate Macrar”. 
Miss Forses J. Macraz wrote to me under date of July 22, 1892: 
“I fancy I have had a closer view of the sea-serpent than most 
people. About an hour before we were becalmed and saw it rise 
in its length astern of us, we had been slipping down in our boat 
along the coast, by the help of a strong tide and a very light 
wind. Looking at what I could see of the water under the edge 
of the mainsail of our small cutter yacht, I noticed at about an 
oars length from the boat a dark brown shining creature lying on 
the water, or rather a part of a creature for there was neither 
head nor tail nor fin visible, it seemed about six feet in length 
and the highest part of it was about a foot out of the water. None 
of the others were looking that way, so I was the only one who 
saw it. I asked my father if porpoises were in the habit of basking 
on the top of the water. He said he was not aware of their being 
in the habit of doing so, and we thought no more of it; till the 
next appearance of the animal made us think that it must have 
been one of its ridges I had seen as we sailed just close to it”. 
The following is the statement of Mr. Gireert Bocte in the 
Newcastle Weekly Chronicle of 1877, December 31: 
“As considerable attention has lately been drawn in your columns 
to the sea-serpent, both mythological and otherwise, perhaps the 
following description of the strange creature seen by me and others 
in 1872 will be of some interest. An account of this creature, 
attested by credible witnesses, appeared in the May number of the 
Zoologist in 1873: — 
“On the 20th. of August, 1872, the Rev. J. Macrae of Glenelg, 
Rev. David Twopenny, Miss Forbes, and Miss Kate Macrae, a 
servant lad, and I left Glenelg Bay in Mr. Macrae’s yacht Leda 
for a sail up Loch Hourn. The day was hot and calm, and, the 
yacht being a small one (seven tons), we had recourse to rowing 
in order to reach Sandaig, six miles distant, where we intended 
