THE GREA T SEA SERPENT. 
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Admiralty, that on the 2nd of that month, he and other 
officers of the Royal Yacht Osbor7te, had seen, off Cape 
Vito, Sicily, a large marine animal, of which the following 
account and sketches were furnished by Lieutenant Haynes, 
FIG. 21. — THE "sea SERPENT " AS SEEN FROM THE * CITY OF 
BALTIMORE.' 
and were confirmed by Commander Pearson, Mr. Douglas 
Haynes, Mr. Forsyth, and Mr. Moore, engineer. 
" Lieutenant Haynes writes, under date, ' Royal Yacht Osborne, 
Gibraltar, June 6 ' : On the evening of that day, the sea being perfectly 
smooth, my attention was first called by seeing a ridge of fins above 
