APPENDIX. 
LETTERS AND FACTS. 
I shall endeavour, in this division of our subject, 
to give only the best authenticated facts with regard 
to this monster, and only those letters that are entire¬ 
ly worthy of our respect and confidence, both from 
the high reputation that their authors enjoy, and also 
from the fact, that these men, who appear to testify, 
are the very men who, in our courts, would com¬ 
mand, from their position and their practical knowl¬ 
edge, the greatest attention. 
The writer of an article in the Westminster Re¬ 
view, who seems to have* no doubt in his own mind 
as to the existence of this animal, says, with great 
truth: — 
“ It seems to us that the witnesses called on be¬ 
half of the Sea-Serpent afford the very best evi¬ 
dence that could be wished. The majority of our 
professors and curators would not know a whale from 
a porpoise, a porpoise from a shark, a shark from an 
ichthyosaurus, if they beheld these creatures in their 
native element; it is when beasts are stuffed with 
straw, or reduced to skeletons, or when fragments of 
their bones are placed under the compound micro¬ 
scope, that the knowledge of them among these 
savans begins and ends ; but the mariner, the whaler, 
the harpooner, the porpoise-shooter, the practical 
fisherman, — these know the creatures of the deep 
from each other, and can pronounce with wonderful 
