[61] CEPHALOPODS OF NORTHEASTERN COAST OF AMERICA. 
Lord direct you with all our Dear loves to you and all friends, concludes 
him that is your very affectionate loving Father. 
“THOMAS CLEAR.” 
“The Monster Described. 
“This Monster was taken at Dingle-I-cosh in the county of Kerry, 
being driven up by a great storm in the Month of October last 1673; 
having two heads, one great head (out of which sprung a little head 
two foot, or a yard from the great head) with two great eyes, each as 
big as a pewter dish, the length of it being about nineteen foot, bigger 
in the body than any horse, of the shape represented by this figure, 
having upon the great head ten horns, some of six some of eight or ten, 
one of eleven foot long, the biggest horns as big as a man’s Leg, the 
least as his wrist, which horns it threw from it on both sides; And to it 
again to defend it self having two of the ten horns plain, and smooth 
that were the biggest and middle horns, the other eight had one hundred 
Crowns a peece, placed by two and two on each of them, in all 800 
crowns, each Crown having teeth, that tore any thing that touched 
them, by shutting together the sharp teeth, being like the wheels of a 
watch, The Crowns were as big as a man’s thumb or something bigger, 
that a man might put his finger in the hollow part of them, and had in 
them something like a pearl or eye in the middle; over this Monster’s 
back was a mantle of a bright Red Colour, with a fringe round it, it 
hung down on both sides like a Carpet on a table, falling back on each 
side, and faced with white; the crowns and mantle were glorious to 
behold: This monster had not one bone about him, nor fins nor scales, 
or feet, but had a smooth skin like a man’s belly. It swoom by the 
lappits of the mantle; The little head it could dart forth a yard from 
the great, and draw it in again at plesure, being like a hawk’s beak 
and having in the little head two tongues by which it is thought it 
received all its nourishment; when it was dead and opened the liver 
wayed 30 pounds. The man that took it came to Clonmel the 4th of 
this instant December, with two of the horns in a long box with the 
little head, and the figure of the fish drawn on a painted-cloth, which 
was the full proportion of it, and he went up to Dublin, with an intent 
to shew it to the Lord Lieutenant.” 
“‘ Letter No. 4, manuscript. 
“In a Letter from 4 very Sober person in Dublin dated 27th of 
December 1673. 
“Yesterday I went to See part of the Sea Monster, which was taken 
at Dingle, viz. the two Bigg Hornes and the little head, the Hornes are 
neare foure foot long, and about six inches thick towards the Root, and 
full of little Coronetts about the Compass of a groat, and teeth in every 
one of them, they were fixt to the Horne, with a string like a Veine, by 
which I conceive they received Nourishment, rather then that the nour- 
