The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Messieurs FLEET,

In a letter to Dr. Moses Gunn of Montague, a Gentleman of undoubted veracity, I have account, that in the month of May last past, four reputable persons affirmed, they in company, having crossed Connecticut river at the confluence of Deerfield river with it, saw a Serpent which they took for a Rattle Snake; & one of the company Struck at it; on which two heads one at each end of the Serpent sprung nimbly at the stick. The strokes were repeated till the animal was dead, and the four persons viewed it attentively,---and report it had one entire body about four feet in length, and in the middle as thick as the small of a man's leg, tapering each way in common form to the head. One end appeared exactly in form of a large yellow Rattle Snake; the other together with the head, a black Snake: the anus was in the middle, where these two animals of such apparently different species joined. Within a few Feet of this monster was found a large black Snake attendant. The horrid form of the foresaid creature urged the spectators to throw it precipitately into the river, which prevented a more critical examination.

As the above may be depended upon, it is communicated as a rare phenomenon in natural history, for the entertainment of the curious, by

T. YOUNG