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LIKE your correspondent, Mr. Sidebotham (in NATURE, vol. xxvii. p 315), I have frequently seen a shoal of porpoises in Llandudno Bay, as well as in other places, and on the occasion referred to by Mr. Mutt, in NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 293, the idea of porpoises was at first started but immediately abandoned. I will venture to suggest that no one has seen a shoal of these creatures travel at the rate of from twenty-five to thirty miles an hour. I have seen whales in the ocean, and large flocks of sea-birds, such as those of the eider duck, skimming its surface; but the strange appearance seen at Llandudno on September 3 was not to be accounted for by porpoises, whales, birds, or breakers, an opinion which was shared by all present.
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BARFOOT, W. The Sea Serpent. Nature 27, 338 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027338e0
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