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diameter : close behind the head a mane Hke a fin com- 
menced along the neck, and spread itself out on both sides, 
right and left, when swimming. The mane, as well as the 
head, was of the colour of mahogany. The body was 
quite smooth, its movements occasionally fast and slow. 
It was serpent-like, and moved up and down. The few 
undulations which those parts of the body and tail that 
were out of water made, were scarcely a fathom in length. 
These undulations were not so high that he could see 
between them and the water. 
In confirmation of this account Mr. Soren Knudtzon, 
Dr. Hoffmann, surgeon in Molde, Rector Hammer, Mr. 
Kraft, curate, and several other persons, testified that they 
had seen in the neighbourhood of Christiansand a sea- 
serpent of considerable size. 
Mr. William Knudtzon, and Mr. Bochlum, a candidate 
for holy orders, also gave their account of it, much to the 
same purport ; but some of these remarks are worthy of 
note for future comment. They say, " its motions were in 
undulations, and so strong that white foam appeared before 
it, and at the side, which stretched out several fathoms. 
It did not appear very high out of the water ; the head 
was long and small in proportion to the throat : as the 
latter appeared much greater than the former, probably it 
was furnished with a mane." 
Sheriffe Gottsche testified to a similar effect. " He 
could not judge of the animal's entire length ; he could 
not observe its extremity. At the back of the head there 
was a mane, which was the same colour as the rest of the 
body." 
We must take one more Norwegian account, for it is 
a very important one. The venerable P. W. Deinbolt,* 
* Hitherto erroneously printed " DeinboU." 
