“My relatives wrote saying that they would have seen a hundred
sea-serpents and never reported it, and a lady also wrote that
she pitied any one that was related to any one who had seen the
sea-serpent.”
I hope that within a few years this fear of meeting with a sea-serpent
will no more be heard of.
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work, for it is impossible for me to get hold of all what hereafter may
be written about the subject, or to consult each notice.