Reports, 1803-1809, concerning sea-serpents.

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Reports, 1803-1809, concerning sea-serpents.

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A curious collection of reports, assembled by the Rev. Alden Bradford of Wiscasset, Maine, and submitted to John Quincy Adams of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, documenting the appearance of sea-serpents off the New England coast. These creatures were sighted off Marshfield in 1751 and 1780, Portland in 1777 or 1778 and Penobscot Bay in 1802, and off Lubec, Maine about 1804. The collection includes two accounts from the Wernerian Natural History Society of sea-serpents sighted off Scotland in 1809.

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