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MAMMALS OF LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND. 
whales coming up the river Trent, as suggested by a correspondent. When I was 
a youth, about sixty-five years ago, there was a pair of whale’s jawbones standing 
between two fields, as gate-posts, on the left side of London Read, Leicester. 
They formed an arch something like a Gothic church window, nearly meeting 
each other at the top. A waggon-load of hay could pass between and under them. 
They were nearly bleached white by the action of the sun and air.” 
A pair of Whale’s jawbones formerly in the possession of the late 3Ir. ,T. E. 
Weatherhead are now, 1 am informed, placed over the carriage-drive at the 
residence of JMr. A. E. Weatherhead, Granville Road, Wigston Fields. The Whale 
to which they belonged vras caught off the coast of Cornwall in 1877. I record 
these lest, in the event of their getting loose and being subsequently dug up, 
they should be mistaken for bones of an extinct Elephant. 
