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before the other, are of course bare of herbage ; 

 but I observe in most cases that the grass imme- 

 diately at the sides of the path grows more 

 luxuriantly there than elsewhere, and betrays itself 

 at a distance by its bright green colour, forming a 

 line completely across the meadow. This, I presume, 

 is owing to the additional manure which it receives 

 from the droppings of the sheep as they pass to 

 and fro. 



GRAMPUS.* 



DURING a short visit at Thorney, in the Isle of 

 Ely, in August, 1843, I was obligingly shown by a 

 gentleman of that place an entire skeleton of some 

 large cetaceous animal, undoubtedly a grampus, 

 which had been found a few years back, about four 

 miles from Thorney, in the moor, three feet below 

 the surface of the ground. The skeleton was very 

 perfect, and eighteen or twenty feet long. The 

 teeth were ten in number on each side of the jaw, 

 above and below, conical, and slightly curved : those 

 below were rather blunted by use ; those above 

 somewhat smaller than the others, and more pointed. 

 I was informed that three or four of these skeletons 

 had been found at different times in the fens of that 

 neighbourhood. This is unequivocal evidence of 

 the sea having formerly come over the whole of that 

 district, as indeed is sufficiently testified by other 

 evidence. 



* Phoctena orca, F. Cuv. 



