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THE letters of Dr. Drew and others remind me of what I witnessed at Sandgate twenty-four years ago. I was staying at a cottage on an elevation which commanded an extensive sea-view, One morning my attention was called to a large, dark, undulating body, which moved rapidly through the sea. As it was some way out from shore, I naturally concluded it to be of enormous length. I lost no time in making inquiries as to the nature of this phenomenon, and was so fortunate as to discover a fisherman who had witnessed it. He told me it was a flight of petrels. But for this I should certainly have believed that I had seen the Great Unknown. I have often seen a similar phenomenon, but nothing nearly so striking as this.
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INGLEBY, C. The Sea-Serpent Explained. Nature 18, 541 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018541c0
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