THE GREA T SEA SERPENT. 
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feet long, and completely covered with snaky-looking barnacles. 
So like a huge living monster did this appear, that had circum- 
stances prevented my sending a boat to it, I should certainly have 
believed I had seen the great sea-serpent." 
In September, 1872, Mr. Frank Buckland published, in 
Land and Water, an account by the late Duke of Marl- 
borough, of a " sea-serpent " having been seen several times 
within a fev^ days, in Loch Hourn, Scotland. A sketch of 
it was given which almost exactly accorded with that of 
Pontoppidan's sea-serpent, namely, seven hunches or protu- 
berances like so many porpoises swimming in line, preceded 
by a head and neck raised slightly out of water. Many other 
accounts have been published of the appearance of serpent- 
like sea monsters, but I have only space for two or three 
more of the most remarkable of them. 
On the loth of January, 1877, the following affidavit was 
made before Mr. Raffles, magistrate, at Liverpool : 
" We, the undersigned officers and crew of the barque 'Pauline ' 
(of London), of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, in the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do solemnly and 
sincerely declare that, on July 8, 1875, 1^^- 5° ^3' S., long. 35° W., 
we observed three large sperm whales, and one of them was gripped 
round the body with two turns of what appeared to be a huge 
serpent. The head and tail appeared to have a length beyond the 
coils of about thirty feet, and its girth eight feet or nine feet. The 
serpent whirled its victim round and round for about fifteen 
minuteSj and then suddenly dragged the whale to the bottom, head 
first. 
" Geo. Drevar, Master ; Horatio Thompson, John Hen- 
derson Landells, Owen Baker, and William 
Lewarn. 
Again, on July 13, a similar serpent was seen, about two 
hundred yards off, shooting itself along the surface, head and 
