CONCLUSIONS. a aT 
Of course the animal swimming rapidly propels the water before 
it, so that the water curls up before its throat (51, 93, 118), or 
even foams (44, 63, 85, 95, 115, fig. 26), and when it swiftly 
darts forwards for prey and elevates its flappers above water, the 
motion of its flappers causes distinctly visible splashes (137, 149, 
152, fig. 46, of course in n°. 129 and 148 the movements of the 
flappers must also have caused a severe splashing, though this is 
neither mentioned nor delineated, figg. 36, 45). Also when it drops 
its neck like a log of wood into the water, an enormous splash or 
sprey on both sides was visible (149, 152). 
In the open sea the animal generally swims “as straight forward 
as you could draw a line” (39, 41, 114, 134), “not deviating in 
the slightest degree from its course, which it held on apparently 
on some determined purpose” (118), seldom it is recorded as 
“taking a turn” (114, 122, 128), but when in a harbour it may 
move “in several directions” (41), as if “playing” (39, 638, 69, 
130), “in circles” (39), or “bringing the body into a letter S’ (63, 130). 
The mode of turning is so characteristic and unique that I feel obliged 
to repeat all that I have found about it: — “he turned short and 
quick and the first part of the curve that he made in turning 
resembled the link of a chain, but when his head came parallel 
with his tail, his head and tail appeared near together” (39), —- 
“his motion when he turned was quick; the first part of the curve 
that he made in turning was of the form of a staple, and as he 
approached towards his tail he came near his body with his head, 
and then ran parallel with his tail, and his head and tail then 
appeared near together’ (41), — “in changing his course he brought 
his head to where his tail was, or in fact to the extreme hinder- 
part visible; raising himself as he turned six or eight inches out 
of water” (41), — “he turned quick and short and the first part 
of the curve that he makes in turning is in the form of a staple, 
but his head seems to approach rapidly towards his body, his 
head and tail moving in opposite directions, and when his head 
and tail came parallel they appear almost to touch each other” 
(41), — “when he changed his course he diminished his velocity 
but little; the two extremes that were visible appeared rapidly 
moving in opposite directions, and when they came parallel, they 
appeared not more than a yard apart’ (41), — “he turned very 
short; the form of the curve when he turned. resembled a staple; 
his head seemed to approach towards his body for some feet, then 
his head and tail appeared moving rapidly, in opposite directions , 
