Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-12

with the tide. It was happy thought for the deviI-fish found himself effectually moored to the shore. His struggles were terrific as he flung his ten arms about in dying agony. The fishermen took care to keep respectful dis tance from the long tentacles, which ever and anon da1ted out like great tongues from the central mass. At length it became exhausted, and as the water receded it expired"
 The body measured 20 feet from the beak to the extremity of the tail The circumfer snce of the body Is not stated, but one of the tentacular arms measured 35 feet in length.
 According to these measurements, this was the largest specimen yet found, it being near ly twice as large as No. 14.
 Mo- 19 MT. Harvey has also given an ac- count of this specimen. It was found cast 1878, by MT. William Budgell, fisherman residing at Three Arms, South Arm of Notre Dame Bay. It was dead when found, and was cut up and used for dog meat. Mir. Har- vey's account is as follows:
 My informant, very intelligent person, who was on a visit in that quarter on business, arrived at BudgelPs house soon after he had
 brought it home in 8 mutilsted state, and care fully measured some portions with his own
 hand. He found that the body measured 15 feet from the beak to the end of the tail.
 * The circumference of the body at it's
 thickest part was 12 feet. He found only one
 of the short arms perfect, which was 16 feet in length, being five feet longer than . similar
 arm of the New York specimen"
 No. g. From Mr. Harvey have also re-
 gently received an account of another speci- men, which was captured entire about the first of November last, at James Cove, Bonavista
 Bay. N. F;
 saw something moving about in the water, not far from the stage. Getting into punt, they went alongside, when they were surprised to see a monster squid. One of the men struck ct r,vSkh ovrd fvtavn nnHiatnIv for the shore, and went quite upon the beach. The men then succeeded in getting a rope around it, and hauled it quite ashore. It ! measured 38 feet altogether. The body was about 9 feet in length, and two of it's tentacles ! or horns were 29 feet each There were sew eral other smaller horns, but they were not I so long. The body was about feet in oir- cumference."
 This seems to have been fine and com- plete specimen, about the size of the Catalina Bay specimen. Unfortunately the fisherman, as usual, immediately destroyed it, and proba- ! bly, no portion was preserved.
 Professor Steenstrup has given accounts, compiled from contemporary documents, ot 6 specimen taken at Melmo, Sweden, about 1546 or 1549 and of two specimens of huge cephalopods cast ashore at Iceland, in 1889 and Nov. or Dec, 1790. The specimen of 1792, had tentacles fathoms long; the body (with head) was 34 fathoms long,. That of 1889, described in Olafsens og Po7elsens Reise til Island, ii, 716, was to 6 fathoms long.
 In the article published in 1857, he also briefly mentioned specimen cast ashore at Jutland, Dec, 1853, of which the jaws were preserved, and on which he then based the species Architeuthis monachus; and another specimen, which he named Architeuthis dux, taken by Capt. Vilh. Hygom, in the western Atlantic.
 u...;,. 5.,..;Lo AZ ,,,oo;roa,s oe +xuo rr,aoiao both of which are apparently distinct from all the Newfoundland specimens enumerated by me. The first of these (his Plate D is represented by the jaws and buccal mass, with I the. ingual dentition, and some detached suckers, preserved in the museum af the Uni versity of Utrecht. but from an unknown To- 1 cality. These parts are well figured and de- scribed, and were referred to Architeuthls dux by Harting.
 The other species described by Harting was | from the Indian Ocean, and belongs to the | genus Enoploteuthis. In this genus there are ! 4a, both on the club of the tentacular-arms 1 and on the sessile arms, in place of the suck CTS of ordinary squids.
 According to Jeffreys British Conchology, \ vol. V, p. 124, a huge cephalopod was strand | ed in 1860 or 1861, between Hillswick and Scalloway, on the west of Shetland. ''From
 a communication received by Professor All man it appears that the tentacles were 16 feet \ long, the pedal arms about half that length, | and the mantle sac, feet; the mantle was | terminated by fins; one Of the suckers exam. \ ined by Professor Altman was inch in diane l ter''
 Mr. Kent, in the articles already referred | to, mentions sessile arm of giant cephal- \ opod, which has bsen long preserved in the ! British Museum, but of which the origin is l unknown. He states, in the first article, that | it is just feet long and II inches in circum.
 ference at the hase, tapering of to fine point. There are about 15O suckers, in each
 of the two alternating rows, those at the base | being .75 of an inch in diameter.
 Lieut.. Bouyer, of the French steamer Alec
 ton,' encountered huge cephalopod, in Mo-
 vember, 1860, between Madeira and Tener-
 fife. It's body was estimated to be between \ 15 and Is feet in length. A long and labori-
 ous attempt was made to capture it, and a ! slipnoose was passed around the body, but on | attempting to hoist it on board the .rope cut
 through the soft flesh and the tail alone was
 secured. A sketch of the animal was made \ by one of the officers. A copy of this was | shown on the screen.
 M. Paul Gervais has mentioned an addi i tional species (Architeuthis Mouchezi Velain | Of which portions were brought to Paris by | M. Velain, from the Island of St. Paul, Indian Ocean, where it was cast ashore in November | 1874. description and rude figure of it
 made from photograph taken in the position | in which it lay upon the shore, has also beer | published by M. Velain.
 In the Biologist, London, 1875. there Is ar
 article entitled, ''Notice of gigantic Cephal opod (Dinoteuthis proboscideus), which was
 years ago. By A. G. More" The article is
 chiefly reprint of the rude, but interesting, popular accounts written at the time of the | capture. It was described as 19 feet in total length the long arms having been mut1lated | the part remaining was II feet long, and as | T. n1 A: from to feet in length, and were as thicL
 as mans leg, and had two rows of large ser
 rated suckers the proboscis (buccal mas, | with beak) was the size of a mans fist; tht beak was sssomewhat like to an eagles bill
 but broader" The whole animal was said tt l have been as large as 8 large horse. Int
 length of the head and body together was
 feet.
 MT. More has kindly sent mo tracing | from the original figure. This shows broad l oval, flat body, and small caudal fin. The
 body or mantle had evidently been split ope1
 and spread out fiat.
 This fact is also evident from the origina
 descripti ons reprinted by MT. More, in whicl the sides of the mantle are described as fol | lows "Over this monsters back was man.
 tie of bright red color, with fringe round it; it hung down on both sides like carpe
 on Q table, falling back on each side, and
 faced with white"
 In the Aoologlst, June, 1oI5, P. 40Oz, anC
 August p. 4569, and in the August number of
 the Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
 vol. xvi, p. 123, the same writer gave an ac- count of the capture, and briefly described
 the beak, odontophore, and portions of the tentacles and arms of another specimen, taken
 of Bofin Island, on the west coast of Ireland, April, 1875. The tentacular-arms are said tc
 have been 30 feet long the expanded portion
 2 feet inches; the large central suckers
 nearly inch in diameter; those of the outer
 rows 5 of an inch one short arm is said to have been 8 feet long, and 15 inches in cir
 conference at the base, when fresh.
 A large cephalopod, referred doubtfully to
 Ommastrephes, has been recorded from Japan
 and described by Dr. F. Hilgendorf. It was 1 taken on the east coast of Japan, N. lat. 35 Q
 to 36. Q It had been split open, sslted, and | partly dried, and the viscera had been re-
 moved. The ends or clubs of the tentacles
 were also gone. In this condition it was on exhibition in Yedo. The following are the
 measurements given Tip of tail to front edge of mantle, 6 feet, l inch; mantle to mouth, | l foot, inches longer sessi1e arms, 6.5 feet. No. 13. This was taken at Fortune Bay, Dec, 1874. It's total length was about 3S feet. | It's head and body measured about 12 feet in