New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-22

A correspondent of the New York Times writing
from Bermuda, under date of the seth ult, says:
have, on this occasion, to communicate to the
readers Of the Times most interesting crcun-
stance, which cannot fail to arrest the attention
Of scientific men in general bnt especially such as
take deep interest in marine zoology. IL Is no
less matter than the solution of the question.
whether q sea-serpent actually lives ID the great
waters of the ocean? most singular fish Of the
Gymnetrns genus, answering in very remarkable
degree to the accounts OF D q Sea Serpent,s fre-
quently given to the world by nautical men, was
CAPTURED y Hungary Bay On the south side Of
preface append the following description, which
cut from the editorial columns of the Bermufian
Of the 25th, ALI the facts Of which, have reason To-
know were supplied to the editor of that paper BY
one Of the gentlemen who discovered and secured
this great archaeological specimen:
Its color was bright and shining silver This
brilliant covering of the skin was, from the strug-
Cling of the animal, scattered in great profnson
about the place. The skin had q rough, warty
feeling to the touch, but was destitute Of any
scales. There was dorsal fin running nearly the
whole length of the creature, composed of short
slender rays united by o transparent membrane
and separated at intervals of less than an inch: in
other words the slight back fin had number Of
regular gaps in it. 1t had curiously shaped head,
the like of which we have NOT seen in any Of the
numerous illustrations of technology we have ex-
amined. From drawing which Is now before US
flor we had not the good fortune to see the erea-
tnre itself the conformation Of the head. in profile,
Is not unlike tllat OF dog. There Is distinctly
defined forehead, with projecting mouth. The
eyes, large, fat and exceedingly brilliant. It had
very small peetoral fms and minute yentral fms
proceeding from. the therax. Ii had large gills,
but was, we are told, destitute Of teeth. But its
most remarkable feature was beautiful erestal
appendage, consisting of eight long spines, Of q
rich lead color, which sprang from the top Of the
head, commencing ut the frontal edge of the fore-
head and following each other sngly about an
inch apart, the three first of these spines being
connected halfway upward from the craniai COW
ering by . gauzy flament, but all the rest were
wholly destitute of any memhraneons appendage.
These delicate crestal spnes. wli ch the creature
had the power to raise depress at pleasure were
of irregular lengths-the longest, grow ing from
about the Of the top of the head being three
feet IN length, and the rest ranging from eighteen
inches to two and-a-haH feet. The large number
OF these appendages were flattened at the extreme
end, somewhat like the tip Of spear.
The length of this singular nhabitant Of the brny
world was sixteen feet seven inches from the front
edge Of the lips to the end of the TAIL 1T was eleven
inches deep, measuring through from the top Of
the back at about one-third of its length from the
head, and its thickness, iaterally was from 1--WE to
six inches, at the same distance from the head.
Thence the body tapered gradually until it termin-
ated in bluntsh point OF about half an inch in
diameter tail having no fnny other append