REMAINS OF STRANDED WHALES. 
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existence with the sanclj and where the round, 
green goiu’ds of the colocynth rested upon the 
ground like shot strewing the surface of a battle- 
field. A thousand footprints of horses stamped in 
the moist sand (for the ground is used for breaking- 
in horses,) heightened the resemblance. 
On a sudden a taint in the pure air offench3d our 
nostrils, but we knew what it meant, and, like the 
vulture to his carrion-meal, we were led by the nose 
to the carcase of a sheep! Placing our nobility 
to windward we capsized the defunct mutton, and 
those useful scavengers of nature, the bur}dng- 
beetles and the carrion-beetles, rewarded our bold 
adventure. 
We arrived soon at Millar s Point, and approached 
the great flat smooth rocks, where, on this wild pro- 
montory, they haul up the carcases of captured or 
stranded whales by chams and windlasses, strip the 
huge bones of their flesh, and* cut up the blubber 
for the oil. All around were stray fragments 
and “ disjecta membra ” of the mighty fish-like 
mammals. Turning over a dorsal vertebra with 
