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[[image - pencil sketch of a cuttle fish]] 
probable shape
[[image - pencil sketch of view of a cuttle fish]]
[[image - pencil sketch of a view of a cuttle fish]]

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Cuttle fish found by Harrington April 26 and another by Hall a week after.
Tips of arms and tail gone -
1st.  Length 6 ft. 8 in end to end.
Length of body 3 ft. 10 -
Width of swimmers l ft 1 1/2 in
Arms 26 - 30 in
Arms mandibular, ends gone - cylindrical 30 in. Arms tentacular ends gone - suckers alternate in two rows - on slender peduncles with chitinous ring around the cup.  Mandibles retracted into a short yellow puckered muzzle which was included in a longer plain proboscis like tube. Color whitish with red dots as usual. 
A raphe exists on the outside of the arms darker than the rest in color.  Capt. Hall's specimen though mutilated was over 7 feet long.  Beak, tongue and pieces of arms saved.