The Graphic of last week gives two sketches, drawn by
Lieutenant Haynes, of H.M.S. Osborne,' of the sea-monster which the officers of that vessel saw off the coast of Sicily on June 2. The first sketch is merely of a long row of fins just appearing above the water, of irregular height, and extending, says Lieutenant Osborne, from thirty to forty feet in length. The other sketch is of the creature as seen " end-on," and shows only the head, which was " bullet-shaped and quite six feet thick," and a couple of flappers, one on each side. The creature was, says Lieutenant Osborne, at least fifteen or twenty feet wide across the back, and "from the top of the head to the part of the back where it became immersed, I should consider about fifty feet, and that seemed about a third of its whole length." Thus it is certainly from eight to fifteen times as long as any tape-fish hitherto known to the zoologists, and is at least as remarkable a creature as most of the old wonder- makers ever alleged.
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