MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE ARCTIC WHALE-FISHERY. 
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Whale, he told me, he secured 30 tons of oil ; ” a very fine 
Whale, and likely to be impressed on his memory ; but I think 
the particular bone in question, of which the accompanying 
illustration is from Palmer’s 1 Perlustrations,’ had been in its 
place on the Denes surrounded by the 
“ lovers’ seat,” at an earlier date than 
could be assigned to it from the above 
statement. It will be seen above, that 
the “Yarmouth” went to Australia in 
1853. Mr. Lark mentions a jaw-bone in 
Southtown “ covered with ivy in a garden on Gordon Road, 
late in the occupation of Mr. Sacret.” Mrs. R. P. Chamberlin 
informs me that a jaw-bone in the form of an arch covered 
with ivy is in the garden of Westbourne Lodge , Beccles Road. 
Yarmouth, and that other portions have been used for railings 
to some cottages near by. 
Caister Castle. I have seen in the garden of Caister Castle 
a fine jaw-bone partially covered with ivy. 
We now pass into the Lynn district. 
£■■ Wells. Mr. Alexander Napier tells me that there is, or 
was, a jawbone arch in the town of Wells. 
Wighton. The same gentleman tells me that there is a 
very large arch at the entrance to Mr. Powell’s drive at 
Wighton. 
Thornham. Mr. Hy. Mayes of Lynn, in a letter to the 
‘ Lynn Advertiser,’ states that during a stay at Thornham 
he “ came across eight whalebones in that village. One 
stands at the old school-house corner, one is a gate-post in 
the lane near the Life-boat Inn ; there are two in Mr. Fred 
Lane’s yard ; two in Mr. Tom Jones’ field near his farm-house, 
and two pieces, apparently having been one gate-post, lying 
in a dry ditch in the Titchwell road, near the Thornham allot- 
ments. I am informed there are several others on Mrs. 
Ames Lyde’s estate at Thornham. I also remember 50 years 
ago there was a fine specimen upon the sand-hills as a boundary 
between Thornham and Titchwell. . . In my opinion 
[he says] these whalebones at Thornham were taken there 
from Kings Lynn by the late William Hogge, Esq. [grandfather 
