History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . .>isiz said, iu a lecturedelivered in , March 20, 1849 : 1 have asked myself, in connection with this subject, whether thereis uut such an auinuil as the Sea-serpent. There are many who will doubtthe existence of such a creature until it can be brought under the dis-secting knife; hut it has been soon by so numy on whom wo may rely,that it is wntng t^i doubt any longer. The truth is, however, that if anatuntlist had to sketch tho outlines of an Ichthyosaurus or Iiesio
History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . .>isiz said, iu a lecturedelivered in , March 20, 1849 : 1 have asked myself, in connection with this subject, whether thereis uut such an auinuil as the Sea-serpent. There are many who will doubtthe existence of such a creature until it can be brought under the dis-secting knife; hut it has been soon by so numy on whom wo may rely,that it is wntng t^i doubt any longer. The truth is, however, that if anatuntlist had to sketch tho outlines of an Ichthyosaurus or Iiesiosjiurusfrom tho remains we have of them, he would nuilcu a ilrawing veryshnilav to the sea-serpent as it luu* been dofcribed. There is tothink that the |mrt8 are soft and [wnsllalile, but 1 still consider it pro-iHildo that it will he the good fortune of some person on the coast ofNorway or North America to And u living rejiresontativo of this typo ofreptile, which is thought to have tiled out. In 1849, John Marston, a respectable and truthfulresident of Swampscott, in an affidavit sworn to before. •-0 a CO w wa. DO < o mm<X F- OOina. 2 2 =^ $ a: o H CO o uuz MO O 0, M id cu ao J < « o SWAMPSCOTT. 1483 Waldo Thompson, a justice of the peace, says that ashe was walking over Nahaat Beach, on the 3d ofAugtist, his attention was sudilonly arrested by seeingin (he water, within two or three hundred yards ofthe shore, a sinfrular-looking fish, in the form of aserpent. He had a fair view of him, and at once con-cluded that he was the veritable sea-serpent. Hishead was out of water to the extent of about a footand he remained in view from fifteen to twentyniinntes, when lie swam off toward Kings Marston judged that tlic animal was from eightyto a hundred feet in length at least, and says, I sawthe whole body of the serpent; not his wake, but thefish itself. It would rise in the water with an undula-tory motion and then all his body would sink, except hish
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