How to pronounce “water snake” in English

for science, Louis Agassiz famous zoologist connected to Harvard took a look at at it and said, "you know, thisisn't actually a spawn of a sea serpent. This is actually a fairly common New England water snake that happens to have a skin disease, some kind of skin infection that has caused it to have all thesestrange markings." New England Linnaean Society disappeared about two years later. Essentially in kind of complete embarrassment. They only formed in 1818, so they weren't