Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — The Sea Serpent Caught. [ARTICLE]

The Sea Serpent Caught.

The Yarrnout li R egister says that the farfamed sea serpent lias lately visited that port and was chased up a narrow creek and caught. He turned out. to be a horse-mac-kerel, ensuring over eight feet in length, and weighing three hundred and sixteen pounds. The Register says: “It is the opitnon of experienced fishermen that this is the fish that has given rise to a belief in a sea serpent. When it is running at its ordinary speed in search of prey, it moves along just under the surface of the water, producing a wave which rises up in a scries of corrugations for about one hundred feet in a straight line, before it fulls off into the ordinary spreading wake produced by a body moving through the water. This appearance in moderate wea'her so closely resembles that of a huge serpent moving over the surface of the water, that it is difficult, even for those accustomed to the appearance, to realize that it is nothing but a wave, and it is not strange that when seen lor the first time, it should strike the beholder with terror.”