~ 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
Willoughby Cet. p. 31. Borlase’s Cornwall, p. 
164, t. 27. These are found on various parts of 
the coast at all seasons, and occasionally enter 
our rivers. 
D. Tursto. Wern. Meen. 3. p. 75. t. 3. 
Taken in July, 1814, in Duncannon Pool, in the 
Dart, near Stoke Gabriel. To Col. Montague 
we are indebted for an account of the only indi- 
vidual of this species ever taken on the British 
Coast. It was about 12 feet long, 8 feet in 
circumference, black above, and whitish beneath. 
Accounts of two other cetaceous animals entering. 
the Exe, and of one entering the Dart at different 
times within the last fifty years are on record, 
but of what genus or species we know not. 
Except the Porpess, none of this order can be 
considered as regularly frequenting our coasts, 
they only occur as very rare and accidental 
stragglers, 
‘With respect to the animals once indigenous in this 
Island, but long since extirpated by the progress 
of civilization here, tho’ still existing im other 
parts of the globe, such as the Bear, Wolf, Wild 
Cat, Beaver, &c., they belong more correctly 
(where local illustration is the object,) to the 
province of the antiquary. Of extinct species, 
which tho’ existant at a former period do not 
now exist on any known part of the globe, 
remains of some of them having been found in the 
lime caverns of the district, we shall notice the 
subject again under our Geological head, 
