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SEA MOXSTERS UXMASKED. 
Fortune Bay, in the year 1872. Its measurements, taken by 
the Hon. T. R. Bennett, of English Harbour, Newfoundland, 
were, length of body 10 feet; length of tentacle 42 feet; 
length of one of the ordinary arms 6 feet : the cups on the 
tentacles were serrated. Professor Verrill also mentions a 
pair of jaws and two suckers in the Smithsonian Institution, 
as hav'ing been received from the Rev. A. i\Iunn, with a 
statement that they were taken from a calamary which 
went ashore in Bonavista Bay, and which measured 32 feet 
in total length. 
On the 22nd of September, 1877, another gigantic squid 
was stranded at Catalina, on the north shore of Trinity 
Bay, Newfoundland, during a heavy equinoctial gale. It 
was alive when first seen, but died soon after the ebbing of 
the tide, and was left high and dry upon the beach. Two 
fishermen took possession of it, and the whole settlement 
gathered to gaze in astonishment at the monster. Formerly 
it would have been converted into manure, or cut up as 
food for dogs, but, thanks to the diffusion of intelligence, 
there were some persons in Catalina who knew the import- 
ance of preserving such a rarity, and who advised the 
fishermen to take it to St. John's. After being exhibited 
there for two days, it was packed in half-a-ton of ice in 
readiness for transmission to Professor Verrill, in the hope 
that it would be placed in the Peabody or Smithsonian 
]\Iuseum ; but at the last moment its owners violated their 
agreement, and sold it to a higher bidder. The final 
purchase was made for the New York Aquarium, where it 
arrived on the 7th of October, immersed in methylated 
spirit in a large glass tank. Its measurements were as fol- 
lows : — length of body 10 feet ; length of tentacles 30 feet ; 
length of shorter arm 1 1 feet ; circumference of body 7 feet ; 
breadth of caudal fin 2 feet 9 inches ; diameter of largest 
