THE SEA-SERPENT. 
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ran : ( Hail, mighty Sea-Serpent ! the wonder of 
man ; we beg, we entreat, we most earnestly 
pray, that yonr most Serene Highness will honor 
our bay for a week or two longer, till Boston 
has seen from our windows the length of your 
Highness serene. Pray don’t be so modest ; 
we consider, your Highness, that that virtue in 
you is a practical shyness. We had rather by 
half have you come to cfur doors, and eat all the 
boarders who take the first floors, than to have 
you keep off at such wonderful distance as to 
make people doubt in -your Honor’s existence ; 
at all events, now, if you cannot stay long here, 
we shall have while you do a terrible throng here! 
So good bye to your Honor ; you out-Gorgon 
Gorgon; but behaviour, not looks, is Drew’s 
motto. A. Morgan. ’ Since he told me I out- 
Gorgoned Gorgon, my brother , 12 I have always 
liked Morgan, some how or other. And now let 
me see,—here’s a bushel or more notes from 
Newport, Nahant, and a few from Nantasket, 
Cape May , 13 and the Pool, and all along shore ; — 
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