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man’s leg and their suckers as large as tea-cups. One obtained 
in 1877 had a body nine and a half feet long and seven feet in 

Fig. 116; GIANT SQUID of the Newfoundland Banks. From a painting 
by Herbert B. Judy. 
girth, the arms being thirty feet long. It was exhibited at the old 
New York Aquarium and afterwards in other places, but unfor- 
