3134 Quadrupeds, fyc. 



heart by far the most tender and good, the leg being extremely tough, 

 and no wonder, seeing how recently the animal had been killed. 



Next morning we are off again very early in search of game. Dur- 

 ing the day we discover two more herds of deer, one consisting of five 

 the other of seven head ; neither was visible without the aid of the 

 telescope. The huntsman computed them to be a Norsk mile (or se- 

 ven English miles) distant from us. As both herds were on a snowy 

 mountain, and near the top of it, where there was no rock or other co- 

 ver to give us a chance of approaching them, we did not attempt to 

 get near them, but contented ourselves with watching them for some 

 time through our glasses, as they were moving about, or lying in the 

 snow ; and then finished our expedition by lighting upon a capital 

 ptarmigan ground, and by bagging seven brace of these glorious birds. 



Alfred Charles Smith. 

 Old Park, Devizes, 

 May 5, 1851. 



(To be continued). 



Capture of a Whale off Lynn Regis. 

 By the Rev. Alfred Charles Smith, M.A. 



The interesting account of the recent capture of a whale near Lynn, 

 given by Mr. Newton (Zool. 3107), reminds me of a similar event 

 which I was fortunate enough to witness in the summer of 184*2, at 

 the same place ; indeed, Lynn seems to be particularly favoured by 

 the visits of these monsters of the deep, for that one whose capture I 

 witnessed was by no means the first that had been killed there within 

 the memory of man. The story of his capture was curious. Two 

 fishermen had started in their boat before daybreak, and were pulling 

 down the river. Now, it is the custom of the Lynn fishermen, in con- 

 sequence of the perpetually shifting sands, when they go out before 

 daylight, to have a man at the boat's head, with a light pole in his 

 hand, sounding the sands ; and this was the case with our fishermen, 

 when they suddenly struck their pole against something hard, which 

 they knew could not be a bank, though they had little conception at 

 first what it really was. However, they soon perceived it to be ani- 

 mated, and then were not long in discovering it to be a whale that had 

 stranded himself in the channel, having come in with the tide, and 

 being left at low water, unable to find his way back. No sooner had 



