About the sea monster Kraken from Encyclopedia Brittanica 11:th edition.
Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, “Kite-Flying” to “Kyshtym”
Volume 15, Slice 8 read by Ellinor – read it at Project Gutenberg.
References:
J. Gibson, Monsters of the Sea (1887); A. S. Packard, “Colossal Cuttle-fishes.” American Naturalist (Salem, 1873), vol vii.; A. E. Verril “The Colossal Cephalopods of the Western Atlantic” i American Naturalist (Salem, 1873), vol ix.; and “Gigantic Squids” in Trans. of Connecticut Academy (1879), vol. v.