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visible tentacles of this individual must have been very 

 nearly two feet in length, so that it was by no means a 

 small one of its kind, and yet far different from the 

 fearful creatures, born of the imagination rather than 

 the reality, which are even now believed in, although 

 still receding from the light of a scientific age. Yet 

 may not such monsters still be lurking all unknown in 

 the gloomy depths of that inexhaustible treasure-house 

 of Nature, which is for ever yielding up its secrets bit 

 by bit, yet all reluctantly, to the curiosity of inquiring 

 man ? 



