ON THE ORKNEY ANIMAL. 



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THE 



AFFIDAVIT^ 



At Kirkwall, Nov. 10, ito% 



In presence of Dr Robert Groat, Physician 

 in Kirkwall, and Malcolm Laing, Esq; 

 M. P. Two of his Majesty's Justices of the 

 Peace for the County of Orkney, 



Compeared Thomas Fotheringhame, house- 

 carpenter in Kirkwall ; who solemnly decla- 

 red, That being in Stronsa during the gales of 

 wind in October last, he went to see the strange 

 fish that was driven ashore in Rothiesholm Bay : 

 That he measured its length with a foot-rule, 

 which was exactly fifty- five feet, from the junc- 

 tion of the head and neck, where there was the 

 appearance of an ear, to the tail : That the length 

 of the neck, from the ear to the shoulder, was ten 

 feet three inches, as nearly as he recollects. And 

 being shewn a drawing of the animal, he declared. 



