400 THE WORLD OF THE SEA. 
the mouth of the Adour; near Bayonne. In 1769 another was 
cast on shore a short distance from St. Valery, in the Bay of 
the Somme. In 1784, thirty-two of these monsters were grounded 
in the Bay of Audierne, on the coast of Lower Brittany. A 
skeleton, bought in London in 1821, is preserved in one of the 
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THE GREAT-HEADED SPERM-WHALE, 
(Physeter macroceph ilus.) 
courts of the Museum in Paris. Very recently (November, 1862) 
a small cachalot was found by some custom-house_ officers, 
amongst the breakers of the Darmon (Var). Its length was 
forty feet and its girth twenty-six feet. The mouth when 
opened would admit of a man standing upright, and he could 
be swallowed without any difficulty. The weight was estimated 
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