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decomposed state, on the 2nd of October 1S31, in riymouth Sound 

 and IS said to hav(^ been 1()2 feet long and 75 feet in circumference ; 

 hut most hkely the abdominal cavity was distended by the internal 

 decomposition. 



It formerly travelled the country, curiously mounted in three 

 caravans, the &-st containino- the head, the second the thorax, and 

 the third the middle of the tail ; when placed one after the other so 

 as to exhibit the parts of the skeleton in their proper situation, the 

 ends of the caravans were removed, and the cervical vertebrae, the 

 lumbar vertebra?, and the caudal vertebra) were suspended in their 

 proper situation between or beyond the caravans. The proprietor 

 had placed a blade of Greenland whalebone {Balana M>istketus) on 

 one side, and several blades of South-Sea whalebone {iiahvna mis- 

 trahs) on the other side of the upper jaw, in the place of the true 

 baleen of BaJcenoptera. 



Fi-. 32. 



Tympanic bones of Physulus untiquorum, from t4ft Ennsh]> . /^^ 



The cervical vertebrae are aU free and separate ; the second wnth 

 a broad lateral expansion, pierced at the base ; the third, fourth 

 fifth, and sixth with rings, the ring of the third being the broadest • 

 the seventh with only a superior lateral process, without a small 

 tubercular rudiment of a lower process ; the lateral processes of the 

 second and third cervical bent backwards, of the fourth straio-ht 

 and of the fifth and sixth bent forwards. The hinder vertebra? lar<-e 

 and heavy. Caudal vertebra; M'ithout chevrons 7, ^Wth chevrons 10 

 lumbar 17, dorsal 13, and cervical 7=54. The sternum is sinuous • 

 but the front edge is tnmcated, on a line with the ^videst part ; it is 



