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prevailing doubts. at was very fortu.
nate for US, (says he,) that we were so near
land, or else the monster would have
swallowed US. 1t stretched its head far
above the water, looked about for prev.
and vanished. The head soon appeared
again and considerably nearer; we rowed
with all our might, and were happy to
have reached the shore before the serpent
The sea lions were so terrified at the sight
that some rushed into the water, and 0.
Tiers hid themselves on Shore" Tilocb.
lin late number of the Philosophical Ma.
gazine, observes on this account, that "if
"a sea serpent really has been seen on the
coast of North America, it may have been
one of this frightful Species"


Considering the immense extent and
depth of the ocean, it is surely no way uu.
reasonable to believe that it is inhabited
10y animals of much greater bulk than
those we are accustomed to see. The ex.
|istence of the Mammoth and of the Macs.
tricet was long doubted, until the discoye-
Try of their bones in different parts of the


world demonstrated the fact. Even in


England there were many who disbeliey.
ed in the latter, so late as the year 1921,
although it was we'll known that the re-
mains Of one had been found in st. Peters


Mountain near Maestricht, in Germany,
The discovery of three vertebre in the
chalk of Lewis, dissipated all increduty.
Having the concurring testimony of 50
many dsinterested persons as to the ex.
ijstence of the Sea SERPENT and other epor-
NOUS marine animals, and having now be.
fore your eyes one of no ordinary bulk,
<the Vampire Of the OCEAN, which Ger.
tainly exceeds in any thing Of the kind
ever seen in this country, it would be car.
rying incredulity too far to persist in de-
nyins that the sea may contain others Of
an equal, and even Of larger size, and a
species totally different from any with


which we have been hitherto familiar.