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the See. As these rights have ceased to exist for the last two 
centuries, the bones in question must have been deposited in the 
cathedral crypt at least two hundred years ago. The occiput, 
lower jaw (wanting the teeth), and a considerable portion of the 
upper part of the trunk are still perfect. 
None of these specimens are, perhaps, so large as that de- 
scribed by Baker, in his Chronicle (p. 420); whose curious 
account we quote in his own words. ‘In the seventeenth year 
of Elizabeth a vast mighty whale was cast upon the Isle of 
Thanet in Kent; 20 ells long, and 13 foot broad from the beily 
to the backbone, and 11 foot between the eyes. One of his eyes 
being taken out of his head was more than a cart with six horses 
could draw. ‘The oyle being boyled out of the head was Par- 
macittie.” 
VI. PHYSETER, Linn. 
1. P. tursio, Arted?. Hiau-rinnep Cacnanot. Brack Fisu. 
Mizzen Mast WHALE. 
Physeter microps, Artedi; P. tursio, Gray (Cat. Cet. 56). 
This whale, of which specimens have rarely, if ever, been 
examined by naturalists, has been seen on several occasions in 
the neighbourhood of the Dogger Bank, by persons on board 
vessels passing between this country and the Baltic. 
The extraordinary size and prominence of its dorsal fin doubt- 
less renders it a conspicuous object, but it is much to be desired 
that a specimen could be obtained, and subjected to a critical 
examination. 
Sibbald’s description of this whale is as follows:—‘* Habebat 
autem hee bellua duas pinnas laterales, et tertiam in medio feré 
dorso erectam quam arbori navis comparabat, que a nautis 
‘mizan-mast’ dicitur.”* | 
* Sibb, Phal. Nov. Cap. iv. p. 44. 
