THE KRAKEN. 
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College, Connecticut, is 17 feet long and 3^ feet in circum- 
ference. It is now in St. John's Museum. By careful calcu- 
lation of its girth, the breadth and circumference of the 
expanded sucker-bearing portion at its extremity, and the 
diameter of the suckers. Professor Verrill has computed its 
dimensions to have been as follows : — Length of body 10 feet ; 
diameter of body 2 feet 5 inches. Long tentacular arms 
32 feet ; head 2 feet ; total length about 44 feet. The upper 
mandible of the beak, instead of being " as large as a six- 
gallon keg " would be about 3 inches long, and the lower 
mandible inch long. From tlie size of the large suckers 
FIG. 9. — TENTACLE OF A GREAT CALAMARY {ArchiteutJlis priliceps) TAKEN 
IN CONCEPTION BAY, NEWFOUNDLAND, OCT. 26, 1873. 
relatively to those of another specimen to be presently 
described, he regards it as probable that this individual was 
a female. 
In November, 1873 — about three weeks after the occur- 
rence in Conception Bay — another calamary somewhat 
smaller than the preceding, but of the same species, also 
came into Mr. Harvey's possession. Three fishermen, when 
hauling their herring-net in Logie Bay, about three miles 
from St. John's, found the huge animal entangled in its folds. 
With great difficulty they succeeded in despatching it and 
