500 CONCLUSIONS. 
have been longer than three feet, as the neck is estimated sixteen 
inches in diameter, though it is called long (118) or even ten feet 
long (118); evidently a portion of the neck was included in the 
calculation. The head of the individual seen by the officers of the 
royal yacht Osborne must have been from eight to nine feet long, 
as its breadth is estimated at six feet (148). 
The length of the neck is said to be: long (31, 56, 119, 124), 
enormous (p. 225), a length of ten feet was visible (48), about 
eighteen feet (124), about twenty feet (118), at least twenty feet 
(160), the neck together with the body fifty or forty-five feet, 1. e. 
the neck alone must have been about twenty-five feet (146), about 
twenty five feet (149), at least twenty five feet (152), about thirty 
feet (151), about sixty feet (145); “from its crown or top to just 
below the shoulder where it became immersed, I should reckon 
about fifty feet”, but as the eye-witness saw the animal from be- 
hind, the length of the neck could not be estimated with accuracy; 
as to me, I am convinced that the neck of the individual measured 
about sixty feet (148). The long neck is delineated in fig. 46, 48 
and 49. 
The length of the trunk has never been actually estimated, as 
nearly all the observers believed that the animal was serpent-shaped, 
and therefore estimated only its total length or the part exposed 
to their eyes. Yet we may put down the length of the trunk of 
the individual seen by the officers of H. M. 8S. Daedalus to be 
about twenty feet, as one of the hindflappers was occasionally seen 
at about twenty feet distant from the point where one of the fore- 
flappers was also occasionally seen. And as this fore-flapper was 
visible at about twenty feet im the rear of the head, we may con- 
clude that the length of the trunk equals that of the neck (118). 
Consequently we may decide that the individual observed by the 
Captain and the surgeon of the WVestor, who saw the animal swim- 
ming evidently with its neck contracted, had a neck and a 
trunk each of about forty feet (146). In the same way we may 
conclude that the individual observed by the captain and crew of 
the Paulne (145) and that seen by the officers of the royal yacht 
Obsorne (148) had both a neck and a trunk of each about sixty feet. 
The ¢ai delineated in fig. 19, has only three times been actually — 
estimated. Once it is called thirty five feet long (8), then forty 
feet long (162), and once a hundred and fifty feet (146). In my 
opinion the animal’s tail in this last instance cannot have been 
longer than about eighty feet, i.e. as long as the animal’s head, 
