Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . d taken a stationas high as we conveniently could, we saw it(;ome rapidly iinder water toward the stern ofour boat. When within a few yards of it, find-ing the water shallow, it raised its monstrous head above water, and by a winding course gotwith apparent difficulty clear of the creek whereour boat lay, and where the monster seemed indanger of being embayed. It continued to moveoff with its head above water, and with the wind,for about half a mile, before we lost sight of head was somewhat broad, and of form some-what ova
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . d taken a stationas high as we conveniently could, we saw it(;ome rapidly iinder water toward the stern ofour boat. When within a few yards of it, find-ing the water shallow, it raised its monstrous head above water, and by a winding course gotwith apparent difficulty clear of the creek whereour boat lay, and where the monster seemed indanger of being embayed. It continued to moveoff with its head above water, and with the wind,for about half a mile, before we lost sight of head was somewhat broad, and of form some-what oval; its neck somewhat smaller; its shoul-ders, if I could so term them, considerablybroader, and thence it tapered toward the tail,which last it kept pretty low in the water, sothat a view of it could not be taken so distinctlyas I wished. It had no fins that I could per-ceive, and seemed to me to move progressivelyby undulation up and down. Its length I be-lieve to be between 70 and 80 feet. When near-est to me it did not raise its head whollv above \ \ \ \ \.
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