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His head appeared about three feet out of water; 
I counted thirteen bunches on his back ; my family 
thought there were fifteen. He passed three times at 
a moderate rate across the bay, but so fleet as to 
occasion a foam in the water; and my family and 
self, who were in a carriage, judged that he was from 
fifty to not more than sixty feet in length. Wheth¬ 
er, however, the wake might not add to the appear¬ 
ance of his length, or whether the undulation of the 
water or his peculiar manner of propelling himself 
might not cause the appearances of protuberances, 
I leave for your better judgment. The first view of 
the animal occasioned some agitation, and the novel¬ 
ty perhaps prevented that precise discrimination 
which afterwards took place. As he swam up the 
bay, we and the other spectators moved on and kept 
nearly abreast of him ; he occasionally withdrew him¬ 
self under water, and the idea occurred to me that his 
occasionally raising his head above the level of the 
water was to take breath, as the time he kept under 
was, on an average, about eight minutes; and after 
being accustomed to view him, we became more 
composed, and his general appearance was as above 
delineated. Mrs. Prince and the coachman having 
better eyes than myself, were of great assistance to 
me in marking the progress of the animal; they 
