ON THE ORKNEY ANIMAL. 435 



"round the edges of the fins or arms, and supposes, 

 that being in a putrid state, they had been beaten 

 off by the sea, or wasted away : That a small part 

 of the belly was broke up when he saw it then, 

 from which the stomach, as he now supposes it to 

 have been, had fallen out: That the stomach, 

 which he took at first for the penis, was about 

 four feet in length, and about the thickness of a 

 half anker cask : That he supposed it to have been 

 the penis, from the one end of it being joined to 

 the body ; but on seeing it after it was opened, he 

 concluded it to have been the stomach, as it re- 

 sembled the second stomach of a cow : That he 

 did not measure the circumference of the animal;, 

 but it appeared to be of the thickness of a middle 

 sized horse round the girth, of twelve or thirteen 

 hands high. And being shewn a drawing of the 

 animal, and desired to point out the resemblance 

 or difference, he declared, That the joint of the 

 foremost leg was broader than represented in the 

 drawing, being more rounded from the body to 

 the toes, and narrower at the upper end than at its 

 junction with the toes : That the limb itself was 

 larger than the hinder ones, and the uppermost 

 joint or shoulder was altogether attached to the 

 body : That in all other respects the drawing ap- 

 pears to him to be an exact resemblance of the 

 fish, as it lay on the beach : That the mane came 

 no farther than the shoulder, and extended to the 

 tail, part of which appeared to have been broken 



e e 2 



