66 



PICTURESQUE SKETCHES 



singular monster we have just been considering. Re- 

 verting to the graphic description of Mr. Miller, we 

 find it compared to the figure of a man, rudely drawn, 



Fig. 23 



HORNED WING-FISH. (Pterichthys cornutus.') 



the head cut off by the shoulders, the arms spread at 

 full length as in the attitude of swimming, the body 

 rather long than otherwise, and narrowing from the 

 chest downwards, one of the legs cut away at the hip- 

 joint, and the other, as if to preserve the balance, placed 

 directly under the centre of the figure, which it seems 

 to support.* Something of this appearance is indeed 

 presented in the fossil remains of these creatures, once 



* Miller, ante cz7., p. 49. 



