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I had then,’ 
MISCELLANEOUS 'WONDERS OF NATOB®' 
* ^ 0 * I 
observes the deponent, a good vie , 
• —an . 
animal through my glass, at the distance of a , 
mile. His aj;pearance in this situation ■was 
buoys. I saw perhaps thirty or forty of tnese ^ 
or bunches, which were about the size of a 
liead, wliich tapered off to the size of a horse's heao> 
to be about six or eight feet long, and where it ^ 
with the body was a little larger than the latter. ^ 
discern any mouth j but what I sujiposed to be’ 
jaw had a white stripe e.xtending the 
head, just above the water. While he lav in t'’is 
While he lay in I jt"‘. j 
he appeared to be about a hundred or a hundred a^ (i| 
feet Ions. The body appeared to be of an .1 
I saw no part of the animal which I supposed 1° „i« ^ 
and thought, therefore, that he did not discover (,]f' 
whole length. His colour was a deep brown 
I could not discover any eyes, mane, gills, P'’ .jii'-J 
holes. I did not see any tins or legs. The 
utter any sound, and did not appear to notice 
remained still and motionless for five minutes 
The wind was light, with a clear sky, and the '^‘pgt^i|i 
smooth. He then moved to the southward, „at 
so rapid a motion as hefor<^. The next mori>i'’»j,,l!‘”j^ 
o’clock, it being quite calm I again saw the 
mile to the northward o*' my house, down thf 
did not display so great a length as the night befofJ’^ji 
not more than twenty or thii ty feet. He ofteu di j [)ir*!f 
and was gone five or len minutes under water- , j 
ho was diving or fi.shing for his food. He 
ill the same situation, and thus employed, 
hours. I then saw him moving ofl', m a noithv' 
towards the J'ght-house. 1 could not deterniiu® \ . 
motion was up and down, or to the right and 
quickest motion was very rapid ; I should supP'j*®j.’pii^’^iv 
of fifteen or twenty miles an hour. Mackarel, ^ 
other bait fish, abound in the c../e where the giil’''// 
This deposition is considered as 
it agreeing unitoi'mly witli the deponents ,,a'' ,,i Is 
in 1815. When made, he had not perused I'l d 
procured at Cape Ann ; and having been 
youth in foreign voyage.s, and frequeuily sceu^|jg!il' 
almost every species of fish, his testimony 
to hai'e great weight. 
