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this, he saw nothing but the perpendicular swellings (vertical 
swellings), as it were “skins of water” pushed up from beneath, 
and a long track or wake of slightly disturbed water, left for a 
long distance behind. It was seen approaching from the direction 
of the Sound between Scarba and Jura, or Corrie Chreacan, and 
passed the stern of the vessel. It was therefore heading at the 
time nearly HE. The Ship’s head was lying about E. half N.” 
“R. L. Cowell saw it almost or quite simultaneously with John 
Campbell on its first appearance.” 
“N. B. The time between his calling me on deck and the time 
I first observed the appearance, I have described, I put down at 
about half a minute (as, before seeing it, after getting on deck, 
I asked one or two questions as to bearings, before I could get 
sight of it with my glasses). After my first look I called up Dr. 
Heddle. It was after callmg up Dr. Heddle, that I made out the 
counting of the humps, and the other appearances described. | 
may have been 5 to 10 seconds between my being called up, and 
my reaching the deck, aft of the companion, and I then got the 
glasses and unscrewed them to focus, while I was asking the 
questions as to bearings. Roughly speaking, I calculate, that from 
the first appearance to Campbell and Cowell, till its final disap- 
pearance, it must have been, inclusive of disappearances and reap- 
pearances, about 15 minutes in sight or observation. When ¢hey 
saw it, it must have been travelling very rapidly; and not nearly 
so rapidly when we observed it at the greater distance. My estimate 
of distance when I saw it, may be an over-estimate put at half a 
mile.” 
“Before J. Campbell saw it he heard a heavy splash, and saw 
the marks of the same, near the vessel — about half an hour 
before he saw what he describes — but no importance 1s attached 
to this, as a heavy fish some time after the disappearance, was 
seen shortly after to splash near the vessel; and Pellocks were also 
seen in the vicinity. The Pellocks however did not splash but rolled 
in their usual way. Not for one moment can their motion be com- 
pared by any of us, with the other appearances observed.” (Here 
Mr. Brown has drawn a bunch, then a gap, larger than the bunch, 
and then eleven smaller bunches, separated one from the other by 
a gap as large as the half of one of these smaller bunches, the 
whole drawing representing exactly the animal swimming with 
vertical undulations and seen at a considerable distance.) 
“Without actually fixing the position of the ship we consulted 
