x " <;!.. \\TH- < KI'IIAI.ol'olis. 



feat lire is the so-deseribed extensible proboscis, which is repre- 

 sented MS rather thicker than the U'lit.Mcuhir :inns ;ml is slightly 

 expanded at the top. swelling into ;i small roim<le<l knolt or 

 ' head." upon which two MUM!! eyes arc roughly indicated, ami 

 which hears the in:m<lilIcs. So circumstantial is the account 

 iriveii by the dilferent persons concerned, and tin- minute details 

 appeal 1 in the main to he so like truth, that I do not see why the 

 extensible proboscis should not lie accepted as correct, though 

 of course the little eyes may have Iteen added as ornaments by 



the enterprising showman. This character, if real, must ne< 

 sarily be of generic value, and I think that our Kerry " monster." 

 not having yet received a scientific name, may very well be 

 designated as I )i notciillt i* j>rol>o.--/<li't(*.-- 



Appended to the above arc several letters, dated 1 (>~'-\. from 

 persons who had seen the cuttle and who describe it, with par- 

 ticulars of its capture. T extract the following description : 



"This monster was taken at Dingle-I-cosh in the County 61 

 Kerry, being driven up by a j^rcat storm in the month of October 

 last. lr>7-'5; having two heads, one Lrreat head < out of which 

 sprung a little head two foot or a yard from the irrcat head) with 

 1. wo li'reat e\es. each as bi^ as :i pewter dish, the length of it 

 l)eiiiiz- about nineteen loot, bii^er in the body than any horse, of 

 the shape represented by this li^ure. having upon the n'reat head 

 ten horns, some of six some of ei^lit or ten. one of eleven loot 

 lonir. the Invest horns as biii- as a man's leo-. the least as his 

 wrist, which horns it threw from it on all sides. And to it a^ain 

 to defend itself having two of the ten horns plain, ami smooth 

 that were the bin-^est and middle horns, the other ei^ht had one 

 hundred crowns a-piece. placed by two and two on each of them, 

 in all SIM) crowns, cadi crown having teeth, that tore anything 

 that touched them, by shutting together the sharp teeth, beinn- 

 like the wheels of a watch. The crowns were as bi^ as a man's 

 thumb Or something hiir^er. that a man iniu'lit put his linger in 

 the hollow part of them, and had in them somethinr like a pearl 

 or eve in the middle : over this monster's back was a man! le of a 



* The extensible "proboscis" i- :i eli:ir;n-ter coinniMii lo the iniiiien - 

 . rpli;jli|Miils nl' the North Atlaiitir, ami tin- ey8 situated UJH>U it, \\crr 

 ;id<le<l, ufcoiu-se. "hy the enterpri-i n- slmwnisiii." <J. \V. T., Jit 



