210 MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE ARCTIC WHALE-FISHERY. 
the river, near the Friar’s Gateway, the uprights supporting 
part of which were formed of Whales’ bones, has long been 
removed. There is also a fine old timbered house situated 
in Bridge Street, South Lynn, now used as a public-house 
with the sign of the “ Greenland Fishery,” and bearing the 
date 1605 ; a house bearing the same sign is in Oak Street, 
Norwich. The following are the only names of Lynn whalers 
with which I Irave met : Archangel, Balaena, Enterprise, 
Experiment, Form, Fountain, and Jago. 
I doubt not most of those present have from time to time 
been surprised at coming upon cetacean remains in the form 
of the lower jaw-bone of the Greenland Whale erected as an 
ornamental arch or used for gate posts or fencing, that too in 
the most unlooked-for places often far from the sea, and have 
wondered “ how they came there ! ” It was the practice of 
the whalers to bring these bones home lashed to the rigging 
and to dispose of them as trophies or for the purposes to which 
we see them even now applied ; the number still remaining 
witnesses to the success of those ancient fishermen. They 
are rapidly disappearing from decaj T and other causes, and 
it may be well to give a list of such as I have seen or as have 
come to my knowledge. As they doubtless all emanated from 
Yarmouth and Lynn, I will commence with such as most 
likely were derived from the former port and work round the 
coast to Lynn and its neighbourhood. 
First those in or near Norwich, all of which were probably 
derived from Yarmouth. 
A jaw-bone which formerly stood in the late Mr. Noverre’s 
garden in Theatre Plain is now in the garden of 5 Ipswich Road. 
In a garden at the back of the old Cotton factory in St. 
Martins, the rami of the lower mandible of a Whale cut into 
pieces and forming part of a fence about four feet in height, 
are still to be seen although very much decayed. They were 
found by the then occupier of the garden buried in the ground, 
and he told me that at the time he found the bones an old 
gentleman stated that he remembered a jaw-bone which was 
set up near St. Augustine’s gates, and he was inclined to 
believe was the same as that then discovered. 
