the sea SEHPENT. 471 
at ^“'■face of tlie water, its motion was slow, the 
s moving 
In disappearing, it apparently sunk 
^ waici, iia nnjuuil WdS & 
V P'sying about in circles, and at otheis 
J||'^ forward. In disappearing, it apparen 
were seven in number, three by 
'JjW'ob’ a ship-master, one by a ship carpenter, 
K. / ^SrillPQ On#» nf flipm rlf>s:rriK#3G tl-vti /v# 
One of them describes tlie toiigue of 
as resembling a prong, or spear, elevated about 
• six inches in circumference, and terminating 
M 1 ) • 
% tK appeared to be jointed, round, 
^ *a tb r that of a man. The other accounts 
*Ft of y °'^^going particulars, all testifying the enormous 
V *t‘et Animal, which in some instances they estimate 
> and the extreme rapidity of its motion through 
This 
motion was vertical, like that of the 
On ^^*6 ship carpenter, Matthew Gaffney, being in 
dis -^ngust, and within tliirty feet of the 
lie hi® piece, carrying a large ball, at its head, 
( 'bought he struck. The creature turned im- 
V’ ®^'d ^he boat, as if to approach it ; but sunk 
directly under it, again making its appear- 
one hundred yards distance. It did ml turn 
H' ** appeared to settle directly down like 
th^*^ having been informed that an animal re- 
^i^'tig above had been seen at Plymouth, a sea-port 
Si ®d tj,„ I*'® United States, two or tliree years before, 
tbgj ‘“‘lowing testimony on oath from a ship-master 
of June, 1815, tliis deponent, Elkanah 
rS ®'‘ddenly called to witness a strange appearance 
’t in a his house. By the aid of his glass, he was 
\|hb, ^^“‘“ont that it was some aquatic animal, witli 
Utia °'*on, and appearance of which he had been 
'iiri?fa U moved, at the distance of a 
S !, bg; h'oni the shore, with great rapidity towards 
H 1 nl^i apparently about thirty feet in length 
X' 
towards the, cove, it displayed a much 
i not less in the deponent’s opinion, than a 
ttwHiidl..' ft appioached him, in a southerly direction 
Otuil it came in a line with him, when it 
“y entirely still on the surface of the water. 
