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"Incontestibly the largest Sea-monster in the world" was described by Erik L. Pontoppidan, bishop of Bergen, in The Natural History of Norway (1752-53). The kraken, as fishermen and the bishop called it, was so enormous that even when it surfaced its whole body did not appear. Wrote Pontoppidan:
... its back or upper part, which seems to be in appearance about an English mile and a half in circumference, (some say more, but I chuse [sic] the least for greater certainty) looks at first like a number of small islands, surrounded with something that floats and fluctuates like sea weeds. ... at last several bright points or horns appear, which grow thicker and thicker the higher they rise above the surface of the water, and sometimes they stand up as high and large as the masts of middle-siz'd vessels.
It seems these are the creature's arms, and, it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom
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