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NOTES ON A COMMON FIN WHALE. 
sum of £40. On January 29tli the enterprising purchasers had 
the whale towed down the estuary and up the river Avon by a 
steam tug, and subsequently by six horses to their works at St. 
Philip’s Marsh, Bristol. Here^ having floated the monster 
ashore with a high tide and enclosed it within a hoarding, they 
exhibited it to the public for about a fortnight. The animal 
was then cut up, the flesh being converted into animal manure, 
whilst the skeleton has been preserved as an anatomical 
specimen. 
