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limitations on form as one moves up in length. If there are two hundred- 

 foot creatures as yet undiscovered in the sea, they will probably prove 

 to be greatly elongated or serpentine in form, whether they be seals, 

 whales, or other mammals, or even fish. 



The third remarkable fact to be gleaned from such a pictorial repre- 

 sentation of the whales is that the vast majority are singularly insignifi- 

 cant in size, more than half being of the two smallest classes, under fif- 

 teen feet in length. The difference in bulk between the smallest and 

 the greatest whale known is of the order of ten thousand to one. 



