New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-21

rapidly dying from exhanstion "huge sea monrter
It's color bright and shining silver. TINS or''s
liant covering of the skin was, from the Struggling Oh
| the animal, scattered in great profusOn about the
| place. The skin had rough, wary feeling 10 me
touch, but was destitute OF any scales There was u
doral hn running nearly the whole length OF the cre'
ure composed of short slender rays uoed by trans-
parent menbiance and separated at intervals OF less
than inch; in other words, the slight back nm had
number of regular gaps in IT, IL had cu1ousiy SNAPPED
head the like Of which have Dot SEGA in any Of The
nunero illustrations of technology we have exam
| med From drawing which is now before us TOR
had not the good fortune 70 see the creature se
the conformation Of the head in prohle 10 not unlike
that Of dog. There is distinctly defined forehead
with projecting mouth. The eyes, largo, fiat aud
exceedingly brilliant. II had very small pectora fins,
ard minute ventral fine proceeding from the thorax IL
had large gls but was are told, destitute oil teeh
But lie most remarkable feature beautiful crestal
appeRdage consisting Of eight long spines OF rich red
color, which srraDg from the top OF the heao COM
meneng at the frontal edge Of the forehead and follow
ing each other singy about inch apart the three rst
OF there epines being connected halfway upward from
the cranial covering by gauzy lament, bat all the
rest were wholly destitute of any membrauoous ap
pendage There delicate creslal spinner, which the
creature had the power to raise or depress al pleasure
were of irregular lengtLs-the longest, growing from
about the center of the top OF the head being three
feet in length, and the rest ranging from eighteen
inches 10 two and half feet The larger number OF
there apreDdages were attened at the extreme end,
somewhat ike the tip of spear.
The length of this singular inhabant of the brny
world was sixteen feet inches from the front
edge Of the lips to the end of the tail. IL was eleven
inches deep, measuring through from the top OF the
back at about one third of it= length from the head,
and its thieknese Literally from five 70 six inches
nj The fame distance from the head. Thence the body
tapertd gradually Until it terminated in buntish
point Of about half inch in diameter-the tail having
no finDy or any other appendage.
This singular fish opened by one OF the speeta-
tors and there was foun in il roe, about three feet
in length showing that the creature was female IL
was also inspected by DR.. II. j. Hinson, Dr. i. Is.
Ticker DIR. Cullen, and other gentlemen including D.
Mathew JONES' esq, the last-nalned gentleman being
well-known the author of The Naturalist IN Ber-
muda" Mr. Jones is in possession of the head, con-
siderable part of the tail and section of the dorsal
fin; and il, believe, engaged in preparing paper
bearing upon the peculiar features Of this wonderful
specimen.
The question ia, What ia the proper designation OF
this "seamOnster p IL has already been widely
spoken Of as the sea-serpent," an offspring OF
that seldon-seen and much-doubted denizen OF the
ocean. Eminent scientific men have declared that
"sea.serpent" il fabulous creaure-that although
intelligent naval officers and commanders IN the COM
uercia marine asser that they have, while traversng
the ocean, seen such monster observed IFS appear
and watched its motions, not only with the naked
eve but through powerful telescopes yet these o6serv-
mistaken, and that what they took to he ah
'sninal" was nothing than q seaweed." We GER
taDly shall not undertake to decide whether the the
DRY of he Of science the experience OF the na-
teal observers il To have the greater weight; but we
are in position 10 assert that the sea-serpent Tor
by whatever it may be called which darted npon
our shores Sunday last, was not aspecmen OF Gu
riously "seaweed, but most singular PTS
catoTy character unlike any representation OF rare or
remarkable fishes 10 be found in books and from its
long tapering form, az well as the mode by which 1t
probably propelled itself through the water s not nm
deserving Of being styled A Member Of the Sea-Ser
pent Family"