44<3 0N THE ORKNEY ANIMAL. 



Compeared Mr William Folsetter, tacks- 

 man of Whitehall, in the island of Stronsa ; 

 who being interrogated, solemnly declared, That 

 having heard that it was a dead whale that had 

 come on shore in Rothiesholm-head, he did not see 

 the body till about the 28th day of October, when 

 it had gone to pieces : That he saw about nine or 

 ten feet of the back-bone, and some bones of the 

 paws, and what was supposed to be the stomach, 

 which last he had the curiosity to open ; that it 

 jvvas about four feet long, and as thick as a firkin, 

 but flatter : That the membranes that formed the 

 divisions, extended quite across the supposed sto- 

 mach, and were about three-sixteenths of an inch 

 in thickness, and at the same distance from each 

 other, and of the same substance, with the sto- 

 mach itself r That the section of the stomach, af- 

 ter it was opened, had the appearance of a wea- 

 ver's reed : That he opened about a fourth part of 

 the supposed stomach, which contained nothing 

 but a reddish substance, like blood and water, and 

 emitted a fetid smell : That he was very doubtful 

 at the time whether it was really the stomach or 

 not ; but that each end of it had the appearance 

 of terminating in a gut. And all this he solemnly 

 declares to be truth, &c 



(Signed) Wm, Folsetter. 



