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the chart and as nearly as we could arrived at it by bearings. It 
will be seen that the deepest water runs from the E. extremity of 
Corrie Chreacan very much along the line which the object or ob- 
jects seen, was seen to follow; and that where its appearance was ; 
last noted the soundings show a very rapid shoaling from 30 fathoms ! 
to 17 about the position of our ship, being in from 15 to 17 
fathoms. —”’ 
“I think it right to add to the above account as written down 
on the spot, that after the statements which were kept sealed for 
a long time after, were consulted and every consideration given to 
the whole tale and phenomenon personally I came to the conclu- — 
sion, and feel very certain still, that it was simply a Tide-rip or 
Tidal wave coming from the direction of Corrievreachan between 
Scarba and Jura running Easterly and then N. Easterly along the 
smooth water where soundings showed the meeting of the shallow 
of the deep. I have questioned Light-house-keepers since who have 
the most continuous chances of observation, within often, calm 
seas, and they have assured me such a phenomenon is not at all 
rare or unusual “under certain conditions of tides in certain local- 
ities’. Sailors have less chance to witness these phenomena perhaps 
than light-house-keepers, as they are seldom and long stationary at 
all states of tides.” 
Notwithstanding this conclusion of Mr. Brown, I feel persuaded that 
he, Prof. Heppie and others really saw the same appearance as did the 
Rev. J. Macra® and others (see n° 187 and 138). The long back fin of 
a dark colour, which gave opacity and threw water over laterally 
by its lashings, of course was one of the animal’s fore-flappers. 
1889, August 15. — A good little paper on the subject, and 
partly a plea for the existence of the creature is in the Standard 
of that date. — (R. P. G.) 
1891, July 24.— East coast of North Island, New-Zealand. — 
The Standard, 1891, September 22. —(R. P. G.): — 
“Mr. Aurrep Forp Martuews, a surveyor, living at Gisborne, 
on the east coast of the North Island, wrote to the papers to the 
effect that while on board the Manopouri, another of the Union 
Company’s steamers, on the voyage from Auckland to Gisborne, 
on Friday, July 24th., he and several others distinctly saw a sea- 
serpent resembling the one seen from the Rotomahana off Portland 
Island. This time it appeared north of the East Cape, which is 
some distance to the north of where it was seen by the Aotoma- 
hana a week later. The time, Mr. Maruews states, was between 
