I I THE SEA SERPENT# 409 
f superior parts, which 
'iita ‘‘Oil leaving resumed tiieir natural 
He now coiled liimself up again, and laid 
V*’’ W) torpid state for about three weeks or a 
(I ^ted j ‘|^‘h liis last meal appearing to be completely 
• 1 % dissolved, he was presented with another goat, 
h'l Sost° with equal facility. It would appear 
t.j'3ll lie swallows is converted into nutrition, for 
‘dity of calcareous matter (and that, perhaps, 
V ^itie ^5'' the bones of the animal) with occasiou- 
®®^tned to compose his general 
■s!Sn s” 1 account for these animals being able 
i ° "'‘'•^ftit a supply of food. He had mom 
« ^1, '“o a fowl than a larger animal, the former 
■U ^ gtasp. 
^'Pproached the Cape of Good Hope, this ani- 
(.yjfo droop, as was then sifpposed, trom the in- 
"'flu weather, (which may probably have 
■-i f'^%e 1'® refused to kill some fowls which 
j fo Hro. Between the Cape and St. Helena he 
*‘t fos cage; and, on di.s.seclion, the coats of 
discovered to be excoriated and perforated 
%s p,°tHng remained of the goat except one of 
^ty’ other part being dissolved.” 
THE SEA SERPENT. 
fois Marine prodigy on the coast of Nortli 
aS If 1 1 t.i .1 
pr ^ placed beyond a doubt by the multiplied 
Linnasan Society of New England, 
■'Dk. ^ mi._? • • /• , f ^ . 
1(1 * ci|,>i ^‘’sfon. Their enquiries were founded on the 
u«,/> ^ixeTiti.. I ■ .. . . ... 
on various authorities, that in tlie 
\ '">1 beef'®'’ an animal of a very singular appear- 
Sl I "> ah ®^®n in the harbour of Gloucester, 
a sef"' fo°™ Boston. It was said to 
' s« pent in its general form and motions, to be of 
■ and ‘ ■ ' 
to move with wonderful rapidity ; to 
J Ute ...... .1V..UV.1UI. j .w 
»| »- • "nrface of the water in calm and bright weather 
f"ll 
to 
|, ''S each other in a line. The following is a 
"'ll evidences taken on oath in support of 
"■Sr, • I'he depositions were made before Lonuoii 
® magistrate of Gloucester, by whose own 
jointed, or like a number of buoys or 
'"•Nrs 
