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high-water mark, and lying on its belly, as repre- 

 sented in the drawing : That he returned next 

 morning with a foot-rule, purposely to measure it, 

 and found it to be exactly fifty-five feet in 

 length, from the hole in the top of the skull, 

 (which he has brought to town with him), to the 

 extremity of the tail : That the length of the 

 neck was exactly fifteen feet, from the same hole 

 to the beginning of the mane : That he measured 

 also the circumference of the animal as accurately 

 as he could, which was about ten feet, more or 

 less ; and the whole body, where the limbs were 

 attached to it, was about the same circumference i 

 That the lower jaw or mouth was awanting ; but 

 there were some substances or bones of the jaw 

 remaining, when he first examined it, which are 

 now away : That it had two holes on each side of 

 the neck, besides the one on the back of the skull; 

 That the mane or bristles were about fourteen 

 inches in length each, of a silvery colour, and 

 particularly luminous in the dark, before they 

 were dried : That the upper part of the limbs, 

 which answers to the shoulder-blade, was joined 

 to the body like the shoulder-blade of a cow, 

 forming a part of the side : That a part of the 

 tail was awanting, being incidentally broken off 

 at the extremity ; where the last joint of which 

 was bare, was an inch and a half in breadth : 

 That the bones were of a gristly nature, like those 

 of a halibut, the back-bone excepted, which wap 



