BRITISH MAMMALS 



Scarborough in March, 1910, measured fifty feet in 



length, and when thirty people were doing patrol duty 



around its huge carcase, there still remained a clear view 



of the monster's body. It was stranded between some 



low-lying rocks at the foot of the cliff, and was eventually 



cut up and buried ten feet below the land surface by 



order of the Board of Trade, who made a grant of ^^28 



for this purpose. This 1910 specimen of the Rorqual 



measured seven feet in depth and nine feet in width, 



and when first discovered it was still alive. Although 



fifty feet in length, it was not a full-grown individual, 



as another specimen which was towed into Scarborough 



Bay in September, 1900, was seventy-three feet in 



length, and a smaller one of thirty-six feet was washed 



up in Burniston Bay in November, 1907. Other kinds 



of Whales which have been noted at Scarborough within 



recent years are the Killer, or Grampus, and the Beluga, 



or White Whale, the latter being a very rare visitor to 



British waters. 



The reader can imagine the sensation caused by the 



occurrence of a stranded monster Whale, and the large 



number of people who pay it a visit. The comments 



of many of these visitors are ludicrous in the extreme, 



and it required much persuasive power to convince the 



incredulous amongst those who assembled that the 



Whale is a warm-blooded mammal and not a fish, and 



that the specimen exhibited was not a foreign creature, 



but, with other relatives, is an inhabitant of the adjacent 



North Sea. Many of the visitors to the Scarborough 

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