CONCLUSIONS. 523 
fig. 46, fig. 48, fig. 49). Once it struck a vessel in coming to the 
surface (122) so that it may be supposed that the animal had its 
eyes shut. 
Generally it swims with vertical undulations (1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 
12, p. 130, p. 138, 18, 23, 28, 29, 30, 31, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 
Zeeeol, 60, 63, 65, 66, 67, 70,81, 82; 83, 85, 9, 92; 94,95; 
ere) TOS) 11S. WATS ly, 119, 126) 287 137s, 
139, 150, 155, 157, see also the following figures 24, 26, 27, 32, 
33, 34, 35, 39, 47, 51). The undulations may be large or small, 
so that their number differs, but also the animal’s higher or lower 
position in the water is cause, that their number may greatly vary. 
Of course it is not always easy to account for a small number of 
coils. This number is mentioned to be two or three (102), three 
(113), three to four (188), three to five (117), four or more (139), 
seven (137, 157), not more than seven (137), seven or eight (9), 
not more than eight (41), at least ten (85), ten or twelve (44, 60), 
thirteen to fifteen (63), fifteen to twenty three (63), fourteen (69), 
several (83), twenty five (2). In our illustrations we find four (fig. 
A, fig. 47, fig. 51), six (fig. 26), seven (fig. 24 fig. 39), eight (fig. 
35), eleven (fig. 27, fig. 34) and twenty (fig. 33). 
The motion of the animal is said to be wrongly serpentine (29, 
ots, 149, 157), like that of a snake (lOJ; 115, 155), like 
that of an eel (117), and reghtly vermicular (82), like that of a 
caterpillar (41), like that of a leech (94). 
The coils are said to resemble or to be as large as ten-gallon 
kegs (41), half-barrels (60), flour barrels (60), large kegs (117), 
those of a dromedary (83), about three feet long (117). 
The space between the coils, for there is always a space visible 
between them (p. 130), is sometimes large, at other times small; 
it was a space of one fathom (9), of seven feet (69), or of three feet (60). 
The whole animal swimming with vertical undulations, and seen 
from afar, resembles a string of tuns or hogsheads (p. 1380), a large 
shoal of fish (read porpoises) with a seal at one end of it (29), a 
string of empty barrels tied together (60), a string of casks tied 
together (60), a string of large casks, gently bubbing up and down 
(114), a long chain of rocks (106), a long chain of enormous 
rings (1064), a number of barrels linked together (106 a), eight 
seals in a row (137), a flock of wild ducks swimming (157). 
The height of the coils above water was, according to the ani- 
mal’s lower or higher position in the water, or according to its 
bulk, about six inches (41), eight or ten inches (39), at least three 
