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most of the coasts washed by its waters. We have no actual 
instance recorded of the stranding of a specimen within our 
limits, but as a well known and widely distributed inhabitant of 
our seas, it does not seem safe to omit it. 
In the Newcastle Museum there is preserved a very fine skull 
of an individual of this species, which was taken in Greenland 
by Captain Wareham. 
V. CATODON, Artedi. 
1. C. macrocepHatts, Lacep. Nortoern SrerM WHALE. 
CacHALor. 
Catodon macrocephalus, Gray (Cat. Cet. 49). 
This extraordinary animal has been captured on our shores 
more than once. 
Wallis thus records one instance. ‘A spermaceti whale was 
cast on shore about twenty years ago at Hauxley, near Wark- 
worth. It was 54 feet long and 36 feet broad; the breadth of 
the tail 15 feet; the teeth, about 42, large, solid, and white, 
fixed in a double series in the lower jaw; the fistula or spout in 
the neck.”’ 
Another specimen of the same whale “ was found dead at sea, 
about forty-four years ago,” says Wallis, “by the fishermen of 
Cresswell, who towed it on shore; the jaw bone was sixteen feet 
long.” In the grounds of Cresswell House, the seat of A. J. B. 
Cresswell, Esq., are still preserved many portions of the skeleton 
of this whale. ; 
The atlas of another individual of this species was recently 
found by Edward Backhouse, Esq., buried at some depth in the 
sand near Seaton, but whether the deposit in which it was 
imbedded was of the same age as the sub-fossil peat deposits of 
the Tees mouth, or whether the bone belonged to a specimen 
stranded in historic times, we cannot say. 
In the crypt beneath the library of the cathedral of Durham, 
many will have noticed the fragments of the skeleton of some 
huge animal. These are the remains of a young cachalot, 
stranded near Hartlepool, and sent to the Bishop of Durham, in 
the days when he claimed “ Jura Regalia” within the limits of 
