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seen them if I had thought to attend to this. His 
bunches appeared to me not altogether uniform in 
size, and, as he moved along, some appeared to be 
depressed, and others brought above the surface, 
though I could not perceive any motion in them. 
My next object was to ascertain his length. For this 
purpose, I directed my eye to several whale-boats at 
about the same distance, one of which was beyond 
him, and, by comparing the relative length, I calcu¬ 
lated that the distance from the animal’s head to the 
last protuberance I had noticed would be equal to 
about five of those boats. I felt persuaded by this 
examination that he could not be less than eighty 
feet long; as he approached the shore and came be¬ 
tween me and a point of land which projects from 
the eastern end of the beach, I had another means of 
satisfying myself on this point. 
u ‘ After I had viewed him thus attentively for about 
four or five minutes, he sunk gradually into the water 
and disappeared ; he afterwards again made his ap¬ 
pearance for a moment at a short distance. 
M ‘ My first reflection, after the animal was gone, 
was, that the idea I had received from the descrip¬ 
tion you gave of the animal you saw at Gloucester , 
in 1817, was perfectly realized in this instance ; and 
that I had discovered nothing which you had not be¬ 
fore described. The most authentic testimony given 
of his first appearance there seemed to me remark¬ 
ably correct; and I felt as if the appearance of this 
monster had been already familiar to me. 
“ fc After remaining some two or three hours on the 
beach, without again seeing him, I returned towards 
Nahant, and, in. crossing the small beach, had another 
good view of him, for a longer time, but at a greater 
distance. At this time he moved more rapidly, caus¬ 
ing a white foam under the chin, and a long wake, 
and his protuberances had a more uniform appear¬ 
ance. At this time he must have been seen by two 
