{"newspaper_name": "Washington telegraph.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
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Two SEA SERpENTs sEEN.--The sub
stance Of the following account 0f Two mon-
s'ers fthc deep having been seen ihe past
week a. the mouth Of the Deleware, be.
tween Cape Henry and Cape Charles, or
what IS called the middle ground, was re-
lated 10 rs yesterday afternoon, by one III
the discovers. Capt. Lawson, ofrLc schcon-
er Empire, from Snow Hill, MD, now in
this ci.y.


Captain Lawson was If The time in charge
ofibe wheei, sghen lii vessel grated upon
something, which hc supposed to bc 4
wreck, from the fact iii2i a dark looking
object, resembling at first glance a rusty
spar, was at the same time seen, standing
erect, Immediately by the side and above
railing. Soon, however, Il wa5 discovered
to be moving body, with head and
mouth, which was plainly marked by a rcd
dish color along the side o. about the Jaws.
aud the captain with mnch alarm concluded
that he was really AMI truly, instead Of 30
ing over wreck, i'll contact with ihe olh
fc.iow himself the real 'sea serpent


Afier the schooner had passed over him,
it was observed that there were two in com
pany. The one FIRST seen raised himself
froro the water some ten 81 twenty feet.
and exhibited a body ii length, ~ near as
could be ascortained, fully sixty feet. About
ten feet from the head there commenced a
swell! Is large as barrel, covered al stated
distances with nearly pointed projections.
and reached in length about ian Act, and
then enied quite abruptly. when tLe body
again assumed lis regular form, which was.
the captain links. 4bou. ,he circumference
Of a schooner's spar.


The fall length ol the serpent, or what
ever II may have been. wa Judged io be
some hundred feel-its head small IN pro
portion to lis body. The wind being light.
The two were seen together, the leeward,
for flll half an hour, seemingly amusing
themselves by alternately " rising upon ill.,
top oi,he water md then sinking again bc.
meath the surface; their heads, whenever
above the wafer, lwefe always Observed
pointing TO the east.


To this statement, Substantially, Captain
lawson, as we'll as I'LL hands, IN ready io
make cath, as tie opportunity presented
gave them every chaacc 10 sec, Judge, and
make m2aral.yely correct estimates


[Nrr Ha-eH Courier.