Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Stories about sea serpents, both of fresh and salt water, are remarkably plentiful the present season. We are afraid they are more plentiful than the serpents themselves. The Californians are determined that the waters of the Pacific shall be honored with the visits of their majesties as well as those of the Atlantic; and the San Francisco Herald of the 15th ult., states that the master of a schooner just arrived at San Francisco, reported having seen a few degrees eastward of Sandwich Islands, a sea monster, “not less than eighty feet long, with a head like that of a common water snake, and provided with huge fins, with which it proceeded through the water with incredible speed.”