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Twn St*a Serpents seen.The substance of the following account of two monsters of the deep having been seen the past week xt the month of the Delaware, between Cape Henry nml Cape | Charles, or what it called the middle ground, was related to us yesterday afternoon, I y one of I lie ob-ervers, Capt. I-awMin, of the schooner Empire, from Snow Hill, Md , now in this city.O plain Lawson was at the time in charge of ti e wheel, when hi« vessel grated npon something which he supposed to he u wreck, from the fact that a dark looking object resembling at first glance a ru-ly spar, was at the same time seen, standing erect immediately by tbe side and above the railing. Soon, however, it was discovered to be a moving body with a head and mouth which was plainly marked by a re l lidi color along the side or about the jaws, and the captain with much alarm concluded that he was really and truly, in-s’ead of going over a wreck, in contact i'h ihe old lellow hirusclf, the real sea s.irpent.After tlie schooner had pissed over him. it was observed that there were two in company. The one first seen raised himself from the water some 10 or twelve feet, am! exhibited in length as near us could be ascertained, full sixty feet: About tenfeet from the head there commenced u swell as large as a barrel, covered at staled di-lance* with nearly point projections, and reached in lcngih about ten feet, and then ended quite abruptly, when the body again assumed its regular form, which the captain thinks, was about the circumference of a schooner's spar.The full length of the serpent, or whatever it may have been, was judged to be some hundred feet—i:s head small in proportion to its body. The wind being light, the two were seen together to the leeward, fir full half an hour, seemingly amusing themselves by alternately rising upon the top of the water and then sinking again beneath the surface; their heads, whenever above the watei, were always observed pointing to the east.To this statement, substantially, Capt. Lawson, as well as his hands, is ready to make oath, as the opportunity presented gave them every chance to see, judge, and make comparatively correct estimates.JVr //ami Courier.
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Burlington Iowa Territorial Gazette and Advertiser
Burlington, Iowa, US
Sat, Mar 28, 1846
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