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SUPPLEMENTARY SECTION. 
THE “ DiEDALUS ” SEA SERPENT. 
They that go down in ships, and, wand’ring far, 
Successive sink behind each well-known star; 
Who steer from land to land in every clime, 
And brave the winds and waves at every time; 
Who spend the chiefest part of life’s short days 
In constant tracking ocean’s lonely ways— 
These, as the Psalmist sings, the wonders know, 
Which nature in the mighty deep can show; 
And these can vouch, the Lord of earth and heaven 
The sea hath also made, and to us given. 
M. S. 
As the publication of this essay was induced by the remarkable occur¬ 
rence reported by Captain M‘Qhae, of her Majesty’s frigate “ Daedalus,” the 
subject cannot be closed without a few observations on this new appear¬ 
ance of a “ sea monster.” It has, however, given rise to so many valuable 
notices in the newspapers and periodicals of the day, some of them 
contributed by writers^of high attainments in science; and repeated 
discussion has narrowed the question of identity of species so nearly to 
the point, beyond which only closer observation could have carried it, 
that the author would rather have left the matter where it is, but for the 
consideration, that if any thing here written on the question generally, 
should attract attention at all, some remark on this particular phenome¬ 
non, so stimulant of public curiosity would naturally be expected. 
Taking for a text, therefore, in the first instance, Captain M‘Qhae’s 
own account, and examining how far the creature seen by him accords 
with the characters and circumstances of the previously reported appear¬ 
ances of the sea serpent, it may be observed that the locality is new, 
and the weather, instead of being calm and bright and warm, was dark 
