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mer Cove, on the southwest arm of Green Bay, in Notre Dame 
Bay, Newfoundland. When first discovered by his informant 
it had already been partially devoured by foxes and sea-birds. 
Of the body, a portion 5 feet long remained, with about 2 feet 
of the basal part of the arms. The head was 18 inches broad ; 
tail, 18 inches broad; eye-sockets, 7 by 9 inches; stump of 
one of the arms, 3°5 inches in diameter. 
Yo. 16.—Lance Cove specimen, 1877 (Architeuthis princeps ?). 
In a letter dated Noy. 27, 1877, Mr. Harvey gives an ac- 
count of another specimen, which was stranded on the shore at 
Lance Cove, Smith's Sound, Trinity Bay, about twenty miles far- 
ther up the bay than the locality of the Catalina Bay specimen 
(No. 14). He received his information from Mr. John Duffet, 
a resident of the locality, who was one of the persons who 
found and measured it. “His account is as follows: “On Nov. 
21, 1877, early in the morning, a ‘big squid’ was seen on the 
beach, at Lance Cove, still alive and struggling desperately to 
escape. It had been borne in bya ‘spring tide’ and a high in- 
shore wind. In its struggles to get off it ploughed upa trench 
or furrow about thirty feet long and of considerable depth by 
the stream of water that it ejected with great force from its 
siphon. When the tide receded it died. Mr. Duffet measured 
it carefully, and found that the body was nearly 11 feet long 
(probably including the head); the tentacular arms, 33 feet 
long. He did not measure the short arms, but estimated them 
at 13 feet, and that they were much thicker than a man’s thigh 
at their bases. The people cut the body open and it was left 
on the beach. It is an out-of-the-way place, and no one knew 
that it was of any value, Otherwise it could easily have been 
brought to St. John’s, with only the eyes destroyed and the 
body opened.” It was subsequently carried off by the tide, 
and no portion was secured. 
No, 17.—Trinity Bay specimen, 1877. 
tr. Harvey also states that he had been informed by Mr. 
Duffet that another very large ‘big squid’ was cast ashore in 
October, 1877, about five miles farther up Trinity Bay than 
the last. It was cut up and used for manure. No portions 
are known to be preserved, and no measurements were given. 
No. 18.—Thimble Tickle specimen, 1878. Architeuthis princeps (?). 
The capture of this specimen bas been described by Mr. 
Harvey, in a letter to the Boston Traveller, Jan. 80, 1879: 
“On the 2d day of November last, Stephen Sherring, a fish- 
erman residing in Thimble Tickle [near Little Bay Copper 
Mine, Notre Dame Bay], not far from the locality where the 
