Length of head. 3/4 I 
Length of neck. 4 6 
Length of trunk. | 47/,. | 7'/, 
Length of tail. 82/, | 131/, 
Total length. N= pea 
From occiput to 
foreflappers. 
Breadth of head. | 4/,5 2/5 
Breadth of neck. | 3/,, 4/y 
Breadth of trunk. | 1!/, 21/4 
Length of fore- 
flapper. 
Length of hind- | . 
| at 
i 12/, 
CONCLUSIONS. 
2 5) 4: 
cs V7'/, | 231/, 
15 | 221/, ae 
262/. 40 dae 
551/, Pe ie 
Al 20 | 262/, 
aye ea ae 
om fam | amy 
vf a | on 
31/5 5 6?/s 
com | am | an 
5 
291/, 
37!/, 
662/, 
1381/ 
331/3 
31/3 
21/5 
1}?/s 
81/3 
51/9 
67/3 
411/, 
5921/4 
931/5 
1932/g 
4,62/. 
4/3 
31/9 
161/3 
112/3 
1/6 
I am far from asserting that these dimensions will prove to be 
correct, if ever an individual falls into the hands of men, but I 
am sure that they are approximately correct. 
Perhaps you will in no case admit the possibility of the existence 
of an animal of 250 feet! Well, I leave it to you to fix your- 
self the utmost possible length of our 
The name we give to an unknown 
‘by orm, 
Sea-Serpent | 
object. will naturally depend 
on the impression it makes on us at first sight. To some the animal 
was like a log of wood or a floating tree; comparisons which will 
be spoken of below. It is called an animal of the fish kind (60), 
or a most remarkable fish (118), or a very large fish (29), and to 
be eel-shaped (33), or to resemble a large eel (118, 152). Some 
persons say it appeared to be of a uniform size (34), and others 
that it gradually tapers towards the two extremes (41), and appeared 
