Banks’s garfish. 
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fish, and appeared to represent some organization whieh might 
serve as much for steering as urging forward. 
Since the capture of the example of which we have thus given 
an enlarged account, three or four others have been met with 
along the north shores of the kingdom; the largest of which 
was obtained at Kiess, a few miles from Wick, and consequently 
not far from the extreme north of Scotland. I am indebted for 
the few particulars which are known of it to Mr. Peach, who 
informs me that it measured fifteen feet and about a half in 
length, and as being much injured about the head, probably 
more. This is therefore the largest we have yet heard of; its 
greatest depth one foot two inches, the thickness three inches 
and a half, and the weight one hundred and eighty-two pounds, 
falling very far short indeed of the famous Sea Serpent, but 
conveying the impression that the latter is a species of the same 
order of fishes. 
Of the several examples which have thus been caught in 
Britain, or driven on shore, there seems no reason to doubt that 
all of them have been compelled to leave their native haunts 
under the influence of disease; and from the facility with which 
they become injured by rough handling, there is reason also 
for believing that they commonly reside in some of the quiet 
nooks or depths of the ocean, to which the violence of a storm 
can rarely penetrate and where therefore the brittleness of their 
texture cannot expose them to injury. 
