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SEA MONSTERS UNMASKED. 
Quoy and Gaimard* report that in the Atlantic Ocean, 
near the Equator, they found the remains of an enormous 
calamary, half eaten by the sharks and birds, which could 
not hr.ve weighed less, when entire, than 200 lbs. A por- 
tion of this was secured, and is preserved in the Museum of 
Natural History, Paris. 
Captain Sander Rangf records having fallen in with, in 
mid-ocean, a species distinct from the others, of a dark red 
colour, having short arms, and a body the size of a hogshead. 
In a manuscript by Paulsen (referred to by Professor 
Steenstrup, at a meeting of Scandinavian naturalists at 
Copenhagen in 1847) is a description of a large calamary^ 
cast ashore on the coast of Zeeland, which the latter named 
Architeuthis monachns. Its body measured 21 feet, and its 
tentacles 18 feet, making a total of 39 feet. 
In 1854 another was stranded at the Skag in Jutland, 
which Professor Steenstrup beHeved to belong to the same 
genus as the preceding, but to be of a different species, and 
called it A rchiteitthis dux. The body was cut in pieces by 
the fishermen for bait, and furnished many wheelbarrow 
loads. Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys J says Dr. Morch informed him 
that the beak of this animal was nine inches long. He adds 
that another huge cephalopod was stranded in i860 or 
1 861, between Hillswick and Scalloway, on the west of 
Shetland. From a communication received by Professor 
Allman, it appears that its tentacles were 16 feet long, the 
pedal arms about half that length, and the mantle sac 7 
feet. The largest suckers examined by Professor Allman 
were three-quarters of an inch in diameter. 
We have also the statement of the officers and crew of 
* 'Voyage de I'Uranie : Zoologie,' vol. i., part 2, p. 411. 1824. 
t ' Manuel des Mollusques,' p. 86. 
X ' British Conchology,' vol. v., p. 124. 
