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specimens we have to thank Mr. Harvey, and he produces 

 additional evidence of other gigantic cuttles having been 

 previously seen on the coast of Newfoundland. He men- 

 tions two especially, which, as stated by the Rev. Mr. 

 Gabriel, were cast ashore in the winter of 1870-71, near 

 Lamaline on the south coast of the island, which measured 

 respectively 40 feet and 47 feet in length ; and he also tells 

 of another stranded two years later, the total length of 

 which was 80 feet. . 



In the American Journal of Science and Arts ', of March, 

 1875, Professor Verrill gives particulars and authenticated 

 testimony of several other examples of great calamaries, 

 varying in total length from 30 feet to 52 feet, which have 

 been taken in the neighbourhood of Newfoundland since 

 the year 1870. One of these was found floating, apparently 

 dead, near the Grand Banks in October, 1871, by Captain 

 Campbell, of the schooner B. D. Hoskins, of Gloucester, 

 Mass. It was taken on board, and part of it used for bait. 

 The body is stated to have been 1 5 feet long, and the pedal 

 or shorter arms between 9 feet and IO feet. The beak was 

 forwarded to the Smithsonian Institution. 



Another instance given by Professor Verrill is of a great 

 squid found alive in shallow water in Coomb's Cove, 

 Fortune Bay, in the year 1872. Its measurements, taken by 

 the Hon. T. R. Bennett, of English Harbour, Newfoundland, 

 were, length of body 10 feet ; length of tentacles 42 feet ; 

 length of one of the ordinary arms 6 feet : the cups on the 

 tentacles were serrated. Professor Verrill also mentions a 

 pair of jaws and two suckers in the Smithsonian Institution, 

 as having been received from the Rev. A. Munn, with a 

 statement that they were taken from a calamary which 

 went ashore in Bonavista Bay, and which measured 32 feet 

 in total length. 



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