CONCLUSIONS. A499 
at least a hundred feet (34), more than one hundred feet (95), 
greater than the animal of Captain M’Quuaz, consequently pro- 
bably more than one hundred feet (93), one hundred and twenty 
feet (34), from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty 
feet (105), one hundred and thirty feet (69), about one hundred 
and fifty feet (65), from one hundred and fifty to two hundred 
feet (114), from one hundred and sixty to one hundred and seventy 
feet (384, 144), one hundred and eighty feet (126), one hundred 
and. ninety feet (52), about 200 feet (p. 107, p. 188, 130, 155, 
157), more than two hundred feet (p. 107, 30, 1381), and though 
estimated by the eye witnesses (see n°. 148) as to be at least one 
hundred and fifty feet, the imdividual seen by them must have 
been, according to my reckoning, more than two hundred feet 
long. — Such a length needs no explanation: it is a fact, established 
by the declarations of highly respectable men, and of men who 
are accustomed to estimate the length of objects floating in the 
water from afar and at any short distance. Moreover it is the 
enormous tail which apparently enlargens these dimensions. The 
elephant is of a great bulk and of an enormous weight, but the 
giraffe astonishes us by its enormous legs and its enormous neck, 
though its body and its head are smaller than that of a moderate 
sized horse. So the colossal spermwhales, fin whales and whale- 
bone whales surprise us by their bulk and weight, but the sea- 
serpent deprived of its neck and immense tail is only a child to 
them. Moreover a zoologist has not one single reason to deny the 
possibility of the existence of sea-animals with a body of no more 
than sixty feet, a neck of sixty feet, and a tail of hundred and 
twenty feet. 
The Jength of the head is, according to the different declarations: 
nearly as that of a man (19, 43), about the sixe of the crown of 
a hat (42), larger than that of any dog (38), as large as a hat 
(94), about as that of a pail (29), full as large as a four gallon 
keg (42), equal to a small cask (109), nearly as large as the head 
of a horse (39, 60), rather larger than that of a horse (29), two feet 
long (56, 81), of the size of a ten gallon keg (48, 80, 92, 102), 
as large as a barrel (101), as large as a flour barrel (158), of the 
size of a 54 gallon hogshead (152 A), long (118), with regard to 
its thickness not very long (94), long in proportion to the throat 
(95), about six feet in length (97), about six or eight feet long 
(34, 120), as large as a little boat (82), colossal (115). The head 
of the individual seen by the officers of H. M. S. Daedalus cannot 
