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gray colour, the rest of the animal was black. It was 

 advertised for sale by the Receiver of Wrecks of H.M. 

 Customs, but failed to find a purchaser. It will therefore be cut 

 up and buried near where it came ashore. In March 1894 a 

 male specimen of U. rostratus, not quite so long as the above, 

 was stranded at Grangemouth, Firth of Forth," (Ic, p. 2.) 



Mr Simpson concluded that on his not requiring it, " it 

 will be cut up and buried near where it came ashore." But 

 this was not its fate. Some mischievous boys severed the 

 rope that stayed it, and it went again afloat, poking into 

 sundry unlikely inlets, and for an interval reposed in the 

 Enchanted Cave at Windylaws. At length a storm arose 

 and bore it out again to sea, and by a high tide it was 

 tossed aloft, along with a drift of sea-weed, over a gravel 

 bank, which finally rolled over and enlapped it; but not 

 before it had annoyed the neighbourhood and passers hj 

 on the road at the top of the cliffs, and woikers in the 

 fields above, with most intolerable effluvia. If some future 

 geologist should come to make a section here of what looks 

 like an ancient gravel heap, he will be surprised to find 

 the relics of our unfamiliar visitant in the inside. This piled 

 up mass of rolled shingle, the accumulation of centuries, 

 stretches along the eastern base of the Eed Sandstone preci- 

 pice, figured in the Plate, which is the Redheuyh, the name 

 being now attached to the farm on which it is situated. 

 The Government Station is quite modern. 



Mr James Pringle, Cockburnspath, has kindly favoured me 

 with a photographic view (Plate V.) of the locality where 

 the whale was lying, which is also a good illustration of the 

 geological features of the scene. The Red Sandstone series 

 of rocks beneath the Coastguard Station are of Old Red 

 Sandstone, which overlie (but the point of junction is not 

 visible here) the much older upright rocks, also stratified, of 

 Graywacke or Silurian. 



The Whale lay near the base of the bulkiest rock, which 

 was known to the oldest of the fishermen, but forgotten 

 by the present generation, as 'Ailie Bagarney,' from some 

 unknown incident. In smuggling times an anchor of gin 

 would occasionally, to conceal it — so one of the old men told 

 me — be hoisted up to the summit. The top, in the flowering 

 season, is gay with Sea Pink or Thrift {Armeria maritima) ; 



