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that they are not limited to the northern waters is certain. Tlie late 

 Captain Frederick Reimer, of New Jersey, a very intelligent observer, 

 who was in Beaufort Harbor, North Carolina, in 1863, described one 

 that he saw there which measured fully thirty feet in length. Any one 

 who has seen the specimen captured at Newfoundland can readily con- 

 ceive how such a monster could stretch out its two long arms and seize its 

 prey. These arms together form a pair of powerful pincers at their ex- 

 treme ends, and are furnished for their whole length with two rows of 



Fig. 2.— The Giant Squid. 



perfect sucking-disks, or some two thousand air-pumps ; the edges are 

 also cut into sharp, saw-like teeth, as hard as steel, and these are buried 

 in the flesh of its prey. With all these appliances it could easily reach 

 a distance of twenty -five feet, and bring the body of a man to its mouth, 



