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there is no knowing what they may do, at last. 
Should they, in fact, succeed in taking him, he will 
prove the most lucrative prize they have yet brought 
ashore. 
Sea-Serpent wounded. — Capt. David Thurlo, 
Jr., of schooner Lydia of Deer Isle, when about six 
leagues E. S. E. from Mount Desert Rock, left his 
vessel on the 24th inst., in his boat, to try for mack¬ 
erel, when a monster of the serpent kind appeared, 
and came alongside his boat; he having a harpoon 
in his boat, threw it at him, which took effect, and he 
ran off with the boat in tow; after running a short 
distance, he stopped and rose his head out of water 
six or seven feet; he started again, the warp parted, 
and the serpent made off with the harpoon in his 
body. Capt. Thurlo then resumed his fishing, when 
all at once the serpent came again very near them ; 
Capt. Thurlo then rowed for his vessel, which was 
about three miles’ distance. The serpent then rose 
his head out of the water as before, and continued 
following them at about the same distance from the 
boat till they reached the vessel. Capt. Thurlo thinks 
there were two of them, and that the one he har¬ 
pooned was not the one that followed him to the ves¬ 
sel. They were seventy or eighty feet long, dark- 
colored, and had large scales. Capt. Thurlo had the 
most perfect view of his head when he rose out of 
the water, and states that it resembled exactly that of 
a shark. — New York Statesman. 
[I pass over the years 1828, 1829, and 1830, to 
the year 1831.] 
1831 . 
The Sea-Serpent — once more ! — We do not 
know but that we must give in to the existence of his 
snaky majesty, which has been so often vouched by 
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