looking at this object with attention, he was impressed with great surprise and astonishment at its uncommon appearances ; that it lay flat upon the rock, seemingly upon its belly, with is head towards the sea: that the upper half of it was white, and of the shape of a human body, and the other half, towards the tail, of a bundled or reddish grey colour, apparently covered with scales, but the extremity of the tail itself was of a greenish red shining colour. Depones, that the head of this animal was covered with long hair and, as the wind blew off the land, it sometimes raised the hair over this creature’s head, and every time the gust of wind would do this, the animal would lean towards one side, and, taking up the opposite hand, would stroke the hair backwards and then, leaning upon the other side, would adjust the hair on the opposite side of its head in the same manner ; that at the same time the animal would put back the hair on both sides of its head in this manner—it would also spread or extend its tail like a fan, to a considerable breadth, and while so extended the tail continued in tremulous motion, and when drawn together again, it remained motionless, and appeared to the deponent to be about twelve or fourteen inches broad, lying flat upon the rock.—     Depones, that the hair, which was long and, light brown in the colour, attracted his particular notice ; that the animal, upon the whole, was between 4 and 5 feet long, as near as he could judge; that it had a head, hair, arms and body, down to the middle like a human body ; only that the

arms were short in proportion to the body, which appeared to be about the thickness of a young lad, and tapering gradually to the point of the tail; that at the time it was stroking its head, as abovementioned, the fingers were kept close together, so that he cannot say whether they were webbed or not, that he continued concealed looking at the animal for near two hours, the part of the rock on which it lay being dry all that time; that after the sea had so far retired, as to leave the rock dry, to the height of five feet above the surface of the water, the animal leaning first upon one hand or arm, and then upon the other, drew its body forward to the edge of the rock, and then tumbled clumsily into the sea: that the deponent immediately got upon his feet from the place of his concealment, and in about a minute thereafter, he observed the animal appearing above water, very near to the said rock, and then, for the first time, he saw its face, every feature of which he could distinctly mark, & which to him had all the appearance of the face of a human being, with very hollow eyes; and, being particularly interrogated, depones, that the cheeks were of the same colour with the rest of the face; that the neck seemed to be short, and the animal was constantly, with both hands, stroking and washing its breast, which was half immersed in the water, and of which of course, he had but an imperfect view; that, for this reason, he cannot say whether its bosom was formed like a woman’s or not.     Depones, that he saw no other, fins or feet upon the said animal but as above described.—Depones, that this animal