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iters, and faw the Snake 5 as well as fhe blood that difcoloured 

 the water. What the laid men depofed upon oath in court, may 

 he feen by the following inftrument : the original was fent me, 

 and I think it deferves to be printed at large. It runs thus : 



cc His majefty's chief advocate in Bergen, Albert Chriflian Tefti 

 Dafs, the recorder, Hans Chriflian Gartner, John Clies, Oliver "" 

 Simenfen, Oliver Brinchmand, George Konig for Conrad de 

 Lange, Matthias Gram for Elias Peter Tuckfen, Glaus Natler for 

 Didrick Haflop, jochum Fogh for Henry Hiort, and George 

 Wiers for Hans Chriflian Byffing, fworn -burghers and jury-men, 

 give evidence, that in the year of our Lord 1 751, on the 

 twenty-fecond day of February, at a feffions of juftice in this 

 city of Bergen, the procurator John Reutz appeared, and pre- 

 fented a letter which had been delivered to him that day, from 

 the honourable Lawrence de Ferry, captain in the navy, and 

 firil pilot, dated the preceding day, February 2.1, wherein he 

 defires the faid procurator to procure him written copies of the 

 refpe£tive depositions, attefted properly upon oath, relating to 

 the before-mentioned affair, and what there happened : and the 

 faid procurator, now prefent, for that purpofe, humbly begs, 

 that two men, namely, Nicholas Peterfen Kopper, and Nicholas 

 Nicholfon Angle wigen, inhabitant^ of this city, may be admitted 

 to make oath, that every- particular fet forth in the aforefaid 

 letter is true ; which depofition he defires may be entered in the 

 a& of that feffions. This letter was accordingly read to the 

 faid deponents j and is as follows : 



Mr. John Reutz, 



The latter end of Auguft, in the year 1746, as I was on a 

 voyage, in my return from Trundhiem, in a very calm and hot day, 

 having a mind to put in at Molde, it happened, that when we 

 were arrived with my veffel within fix Englifh miles of the 

 aforefaid Molde, being at a place called Jule-Naefs, as I was read- 

 ing in a book, I heard a kind of a murmuring voice from 

 amongfl the men at the oars, who were eight in number, and 

 obferved that the man at the helm kept off from the land. Upon 

 this I enquired what was the matter ; 2nd was informed that there 

 was a Sea-make before us. I then ordered the man at the helm 

 to keep to the land again, and to come up with this creature, of 

 which I had heard fo many llories. Tho' the fellows were under 

 fome apprehen{ions 3 they were obliged to obey my orders. In 

 the mean time this Sea-fnake paffed by us, and we were obliged to 



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mony 

 given at the 

 feffions. 



