440 THE VARIOUS EXPLANATIONS. [The 13th. ] 
“P. S. Since sending to you the above I have again seen my 
relative, and find that the cut in the Graphic of July 19, 1879, 
is not that of the instance observed from the steamer in which 
she came home, which was the Coty of Washington; but of asep- 
arate instance which occurred to another ship. I have not been 
able yet to procure the Graphic containing the figure of the ani- 
mal seen from the City of Washington, but she tells me that it 
was pasted up in the saloon and represented only the head and 
long neck of the animal, which was raised to a great height out 
of the water, and near to the ship; and had been drawn for the 
Graphic by a lady passenger immediately after the occurrence. 
These repeated and independent notices of the same long necked 
are, however, the more confirmatory of its existence.” 
“] find that Prof. Owen in his article on Palaeontology in the 
Encyclopedia Britanmca (Vol. XVII, p. 166), im giving a descrip- 
tion of Zeuglodon cetoides, says that “the skull is very long and 
narrow and the nostril single’, that Dr. Harlan obtained the teeth 
on which, correcting Harlan’s reptilian reference of them, he foun- 
ded the order Zeuglodontia, from the Miocene of Malta; and that 
the teeth discovered by Grateloup in the Miocene beds of the 
Gironde and Herault, and described by him also to a reptile un- 
der the name of Sgualodon, are those of a smaller species of Zeugt- 
odon. ‘he remains of Sgualodon, along with those of the shark 
with huge teeth, Carcharodon megalodon, and of numerous ceta- 
ceans assigned to orders all still living, and of which some, such 
as Delphinus, belong to living genera, occur in the “Sables infé- 
rieures’ of Antwerp; which, though long called Miocene, are by 
Mr. Van den Broeck regarded as older Pliocene, and as the base 
of that series of deposits of which the middle and upper divisions 
are respectively represented by the Coralline and Red Crags ot 
England; and with these “Sables inférieures’ the so called Miocene 
of Malta, in which Zeuglodon is associated with Carcharodon, is 
probable coeval. Dr. Gibbes (Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc., 2d. ser., vol. 
I, p. 143), figures and describes teeth of the Antwerp species of 
Carcharodon from both the Eocene of South Carolina and Miocene 
of Alabama. These various references bring the Zeuglodonts, with 
their Carcharodon associates, down to a late geological period dur- 
ing which they co-existed with Delphinian prey; and of this prey 
the whale in the woodcut (which looks like a Grampus) seems an 
example’. 
“It is most likely that Bishop Pontoppidan, a copy of the English 
