Show I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 IL A monster ol 01 the we deep st is james gazette on the little stra berand d at augort 1 in I 1 achill island on the west coast ol 01 mayo now lie w the remains of 0 one ol 01 71 the file most os t annous rious creatures perhaps to ba met with I 1 in n all the animal ual creation aaion it was stranded for some madtes on one of the outlying reefs at the entrance enar ace to blackson Black eod sod bay where the villagers took uok it to tb be th till carcass of 0 a large whale it was afeei wards carried on the tile achill strand by the late gale which swept over the western ocean on the night of october ah this sea mo monster rister is none other than the gigantic fluid or icing king cuttle fieh fillip and is is rarely swa feen on oar our shores to what species of the U it belong will ever remain unknown aa as it was too far gone ia in decay and was ehorn shorn of all il its be beauty autv the Ys suckers and h ry rny nags rings had fallen off long foug before it reached the strand and the parrot like horny beak which is is culiar to this animal was wag also missing the tile animal though and arid distorted a correspondent nt says measured ai follows length of tentacles or long arms thirty feet each of body including e short hort arat sixt sixty feet circumference tt tt cles in in some places four feet I 1 know of only ion four r I 1 instances of the tile appearance of this strange monster in BrI british tIgh w x one was mas stranded on the shores si tores of kerry more than beira ago another is reported aa as baying been found off the banks of newfoundland found land oue ia Is recorded by mr arr I 1 gwyn jeffries from shetland and alie last we read of was taken off boffin islo isle of byj about fourteen years ago and arld identified and recorded by thi naturalist aliet mr A G ai more of dublin portions port 3 of this 11 animal are now in in the diblin museum i |