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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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orsafety. In 1809 the Rev. Abraham Cummings statedthat he saw a sea-serpent in Penobscot Bay,Maine, when in a boat with his wife and daugh-ter, and another lady. He supposed it to beabout 60 feet long, and as thick as a sloopsmast. It lay within fifteen rods of the boat. For thirty years before this various persons, fish-ermen, shoresmen, and the British, had seendifferent animals of this kind on the easterncoast of America; and unless all eye-witness isto be thrown aside as worthless, the concurrenttestimony of hundreds of persons, mostly stran-gers to each other, must have some weight. Next, in the month of August, 1817, a greatsea-monster was seen in the harbor of Glouces-ter, Cape Ann. It was seen on so many occa-sions, and by so many difierent persons—mostof them fishermen and others fiimiliar with theappearance, in the water, of all the cetacea, sharksand other common sea-animals—that the Lin-nasan Society of New England took the matter in 184 . HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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THE EIGHT-ABilED CUTTLE-FISH (SEPIA OCTOPUS).—FROWST VIEW, SHOAVTNG THE EYES. hand, and procured the testimony of a numberof reliable witnesses to be taken on oath. Thewitnesses saw it on different occasions. Some-times it remained in sight from an hour and ahalf to two hours—surely a sufficient time toenable observers, at distances from 30 feet to250 yards, and armed with spy-glasses, to satis-fy themselves—and others—that this was an ani-mal, and no common animal. One deposes thatit moved across the bay at the rate of a mile ormore per minute. Another, who saw it oncefor half a day, deposes that its head was like arattle-snakes, but as big as a horses. At onetime it showed fifty distinct portions of its body,and these appeared rough and scaly. Its mo-tions were often slow, and in circles, as though)>laying about. Another witness saw it open itsmouth, which was like that of a serpent; andyet another was in a boat when the animal ap-proached within thirty yards. He fired at

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