looked like a row of hogs-heads. It had the head of a horse, with a sort of mane, and it was gray or brown in color.     Eleazer Crabtree, “a man of unimpeachable veracity,” who dwelt on Fox Island, in Penobscot Bay, in 1778, said be saw a sea serpent 500 feet long. His description was very much like that of Captain de Ferry’s, and the monster he saw had a large black mouth. The same Crabtree saw another sea serpent near Mount Desert in 1793. AN OFFICIAL SERPENT.     The adventure of Commodore Preble, U. S. N., when he gave chase to a sea serpent took place in 1779. He was then a midshipman, and when the sea serpent was sighted from the deck of the sloop of war he was placed in command of a boat manned by twelve seamen and sent in pursuit. The monster is said to have been 100 feet long and possessed of a large head. Its motion was so rapid that it could not be overtaken, but it was observed by the officers and men for over an hour.     Captain Little, U. S. N., swore that while in Penobscot Bay, in 1780, on board of a “public armed ship,” he saw a sea serpent at sunrise one morning. He had a boat lowered, and took the tiller himself, but before he could get near enough for the marines to shoot, the animal sank out of sight.     Abraham Cummings reported a sea serpent in Penobscot Bay in 1802, and another in 1808. In the same year the Rev. Mr. Maclean, a clergyman, of Eigg, sent a careful description of a sea serpent, with “a head somewhat broad,”

that swam “with his head above water for about half a mile.” He described the creature as about eighty feet long.     In 1817 Captain Tappan, of the schooner Laura, and his whole crew told of seeing a sea serpent off Gloucester. They said it looked like a string of buoys, with a head like a serpent and a long tongue that stuck out of its mouth like a harpoon. Its motion was more rapid that that of a whale. CAPE ANN’S MONSTER.     Several persons made affidavits in 1818 to having seen a sea monster off Cape Ann. In 1822 the sea serpent was reported from the fjords of Norway, and in 1831 it was seen off Portsmouth, N. H. In 1848 the British ship Daedalus, Captain McQuahae, encountered a sea serpent which was distinctly seen by many of the passengers and afterward described by them, with much care. The captain and passengers of the ship Silas Richards reported encountering a monster on June 7, 1826, in latitude 41 and longitude 67, and described the serpent as of a brownish color and seventy feet long.     Three Maine fishermen, “all reliable and God-fearing men,” sailed far out to sea one summer’s day in 1823 and came across a sea serpent basking near the surface. Two of the fishermen were so badly scared that they went below, leaving the third, a Mr. Gooch, to face the intruder. Mr. Gooch is authority for the statement that the boat passed within fifty feet of the serpent and that he had a good view of it. It raised its head and looked at Mr. Gooch, and then dived out of sight.