212 MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE ARCTIC WHALE-FISHERY. 
and called the ‘ Whalebone,’ with tenement or dwelling-house 
adjoining the north side thereof,” and an old inhabitant 
assures me that it was ornamented by cetacean remains 
similarly to the “ Ship.” Another Inn bearing the same 
strange device is still standing in New Catton, and the jaw- 
bone to which doubtless it owes its name is now in the garden 
of Clare House near by. A similar relic is to be found in the 
garden of the Grange, Old Catton, lately in the occupation 
of Mr. Arthur Bunting. I am informed that a public-house 
called the “ Half Moon,” on the Dereham Road, had the 
scapula of a Whale for a sign. 
Yet another such arch is in the garden of the Mill House at 
Cringleford, which Mr. Candler believes was placed there 
about the time the mill was rebuilt in 1795. 
Aylsham. A jaw-bone forms an arch at the foot of a bridge 
over the back-water at Messrs. Bullock’s water-mill, it has 
been there many years and nothing is known as to its history. 
At Slaughden, near Aldeburgh (Suffolk), Mr. James Hooper 
informs me that the sign of the Ferry House, the “ Three 
Mariners,” is inscribed on a whalebone, he supposes a jaw- 
bone ; to make sure he entered the house and inquired. 
Yarmouth. The poet Southey, writing to his wife from 
Ormesby on 29th May, 1798, says, “ Another peculiarity 
about Yarmouth is the number of arches formed by the 
jaw-bones of a Whale ; they trade much with Greenland there ” 
(Life and correspondence of Southey, by his son (1849), v °l- i- 
p. 335). Several of these trophies are still in existence ; one 
at the back of the Bank House, formerly occupied by the late 
Mr. Brightwen, now Barclay & Co., Limited. A similar arch 
formerly stood on the South Denes, but it is now in the premises 
of the Yarmouth Gas Works. Mr. A. Lark in a letter to the 
Yarmouth ‘ Independent,’ dated 6 July, 1901, says he well 
remembers about 45 years before that date (1856 ?) being told 
by a very genial old gentleman that “ he had been captain of 
a whaler; which belonged to and sailed from Yarmouth, which 
vessel was named the ‘ Yarmouth,’ and he was the captor 
of a Whale the jaw-bone of which he brought home to Yarmouth 
and which afterwards stood on the South Denes. From this 
