FOUND IN NORFOLK. 35 



The vitulus marinus'^ seacalf or scale wch is often 

 taken sleeping on the shoare [4 crossed oui\ 5 {written 

 above] yeares agoe one was shot in the riuer of norwich 

 about surlingham [vvh crossed out] ferry having con- 

 tinued in the riuer for diuers moneths before being an 

 Amphibious animal it may bee caryed about aliue & 

 kept long if it can bee brought to feed some haue been 

 kept many moneths in ponds, the pizzell the bladder 

 the cartilago ensiformis the figure of the Throttle the 

 clusterd & racemous forme of the kidneys [Fol. 24] the 

 flat & compressed heart are remarkable in it. in 

 stomaks of all that I have opened I have found many 

 [short crossed out] wormes. 



I haue also obserued a scolopendra cetacea'^ of about 

 ten foot long answering to the figure in Rondeletius wch 

 the mariners told me was taken in these seas. 



^ There is in the present day a considerable number of Common 

 Seals inhabiting the sand-banks of the Wash between the Norfolk and 

 Lincolnshire coasts, and they are frequently captured by the fishermen ; 

 nor has the habit of straying into fresh-water deserted them, for in recent 

 years they have been taken in the River Ouse at Bluntisham, forty miles 

 from the sea. Three other species of Seal have been taken on the Norfolk 

 coast, viz., Phoca hispida, P. barbata, and Halichcerus gryphus. 



" A Scolopendra, ten feet long, is at first rather startling, but on 

 referring to Rondeletius's Libri de piscibus Marinis (lib. xvi. p. 488), 

 I find that under the name "Scolopendra" he includes at least three 

 distinct forms — i., S. terrestris, a centipede ; ii. , .J. marina, certain species 

 of Neridiform polychaet worms ; iii. , Scolopendra cetacea, regarded as a 

 Cetacean and figured with a Cetacean blow-hole. With regard to this 

 remarkable figure my friend, Dr. S. F. Harmer, has favoured me with the 

 following note : — " In the account given Rondeletius is evidently writing 

 from report ; the figure is also no doubt borrowed, and may have been 

 ' improved ' when redrawn ; it seems to me that it is based upon some 

 kind of Tunny, although he figures a Tunny earlier in the book (lib. viii. 

 p. 249). The idea of the lateral appendages might have been derived 

 from the dorsal and ventral finlets of a Tunny ; but the first four finlets on 

 each side are imaginary structures, and in a wrong position. I can ofl'er 

 no opinion with regard to the nasal appendages." Jonston (De 

 piscibus, p. 156, Tab. xliv.) also gives a similar figure of Sctlopendra 



