310 THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, [ N°. 130. | 
Nobody can help laughing when he sees this figure, representing 
something very much like a black buoy, with white streaks and 
spots, and glitterimg in the sun, having a long rope attached to 
it! It is, however, pretty well done for one who cannot draw. As  — - 
in so many other instances the figures and the text complete each 
other. The animal appears here nearly in the same position as it 
did in the Harbour of Gloucester, in 1817. The same astonishing 
lateral flexibility! “It lay down, in turning, in the form of a 
staple or horse-shoe’ we have learned on that occasion, and “in 
domg so it nearly touched its head with its tail’, “the tail and 
the head then appeared only to be a few yards one from another’, 
once “it lay down in the form of an 8”, &c. Though the Doctor 
does not describe this position, his figures tell it us. As the 
second ball apparently startled it, it changed its position, straight- 
ened itself out, disappeared, and came up after ten minutes, 
about forty yards further off. It behaved in the same way in the 
Harbour of Gloucester. The length may again be somewhat exag- 
gerated, though I do not think such to be the case. The white 
streaks and spots on the head may have been the shining reflexion 
of day or sunlight, the head being thoroughly wet, as the animal 
raised and dropped it at imtervals, which made the water run 
down every time, but it is also very possible that the mdividual 
was really spotted on its head. 
BSH. — 1857, December 12. — (The Times of February 5, 
1858; the Zoologist for 1858, p. 5989.). 
“I beg to enclose you a copy of an extract from the meteorolog- 
ical journal kept by me on board the ship Castilan, on a voyage - 
from Bombay to Liverpool. I have sent the original to the Board 
of Trade, for whom the observations have been made durmg my 
last voyage. I am glad to confirm a statement made by the com- 
mander of Her Majesty’s ship Daedalus, some years ago, as to 
the existence of such an animal as that described by him. — G. 
Hl. Harrington; 14 and 14'),, South Castle Street, Liverpool, 
February 2, 1858. — 
“Copy of an Extract from the Board of Trade Meteorological 
Journal, kept by Captain Harrington, of the ship Castian, from” 
Bombay to Liverpool.” 
“Ship Castehan, December 12, 1857, north-east end of St. He- 
lena, bearmg north-west, distance 10 miles.” 
