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NATURAL HISTORY. 



<5 A specimen was found alive in shallow water at Coomb's Cove, and captured." Professor 

 A. E. Vevrill says of this : " It is stated that its body measured ten feet in length, and was 

 * nearly as large round as a hogshead ' (ten to twelve feet) ; its two long tentacless (of which only 



GIGANTIC CUTTLE-FISH HOOKED BY THE FRENCH STEAMER "ALECTON" OFF TENERIFFE. 



one remained) were forty-two feet in length, and ' as large as a man's wrist.' Its short 

 arms were six feet in length, by about nine inches in diameter, ' very strong and stout.' The 

 suckers had each a serrated edge. The colour was reddish. The loss of one long arm, and the 

 correspondence of the other in size to the one amputated from the preceding Cuttle-fish, justifies 



