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and rowed towards him ; we approached within about 
thirty yards of him, and had a very distinct view of 
him. He had a head about two feet long, and shaped 
somewhat like an egg, which he carried out of the 
water when he was moving. There were several 
protuberances on his back, the highest points of which 
appeared to be seven or eight inches above the level 
of the water. He was perfectly black. When we 
first drew towards him, he was moving westerly from 
Phillips’s Point, and as we drew near to him, he 
turned and moved to the eastward, and when we got 
within about thirty yards of him, he sunk under 
water and disappeared. 
Andrew Reynolds. 
Essex, ss. August 10, 1820. — Subscribed and 
sworn to before 
John Prince, Jun., Jus . Pads . 
I, Jona. B. Lewis, of Lynn, of lawful age, depose 
and say, — That I went in the boat with Andrew 
Reynolds and Benj. King, to see the animal described 
by said Reynolds in his deposition, and that the de¬ 
scription of him therein given is correct. As I was 
rowing, I had not so good an opportunity of viewing 
him as Mr. King had, who sat in the stern-sheets 
with his face towards him all the time. 
Jona. B. Lewis. 
Essex, ss. August 10, 1820. — Subscribed and 
sworn to before 
John Prince, Jun., Jus. Pads . 
I, Benjamin King, of Lynn, of lawful age, depose 
and say,—That on Saturday, August 5th, I went out in 
a boat with Andrew Reynolds and Jonathan B. Lewis 
to see the animal described in said Reynolds’s depo¬ 
sition. I had a perfectly good view of him, and his 
description of him is correct. I counted twenty- 
three protuberances on him distinctly visible at once; 
