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instance, often have stones or big hair bahs in their intestines, and the 

 well-knoAvn Dutch expert on stranded whales, Dr A. B. van Deinse, 

 examining a stranded porpoise in 1935, discovered no less than twenty 

 glittering ^\'hite stones in its intestine, the largest of which measured 

 I inch X f inch x f inch. The stones consisted of calcium phosphate and 

 many organic compounds. Ambergris may, therefore, be the pathological 

 product of an other\vise normal intestine, its basis being intestinal matter. 

 In fact, a product resembling ambergris has been made experimentally 

 from the faeces of a Sperm Whale. 



