. The seals and whales of the British seas. ■=^-^^ k Fig. 17. Chair in Great Yarmoutli Churcli,formed from the basal portion ofthe skull of the Sperm I!. iS. Back view of the same. that in June, 1626, a Whale, afterwards referred to by Sir T. Browne as aSperm Whale (vol. iii. p. 324), was cast upon liis shore or sea-libei-ty, some-tyme parcel of the possessions of the Abbey of Ramsey, &c. The sameauthor, in his account of the Fishes found in Norfolk and on the Coast,says, A Spermaceti Whale of 62 feet long [came on shore] near Wells,another of the same kind twenty years before at Hunst
. The seals and whales of the British seas. ■=^-^^ k Fig. 17. Chair in Great Yarmoutli Churcli,formed from the basal portion ofthe skull of the Sperm I!. iS. Back view of the same. that in June, 1626, a Whale, afterwards referred to by Sir T. Browne as aSperm Whale (vol. iii. p. 324), was cast upon liis shore or sea-libei-ty, some-tyme parcel of the possessions of the Abbey of Ramsey, &c. The sameauthor, in his account of the Fishes found in Norfolk and on the Coast,says, A Spermaceti Whale of 62 feet long [came on shore] near Wells,another of the same kind twenty years before at Hunstanton [the one referredto by Sir H. LEstrange] ; and not far off, eight or nine came ashore,and two had joung ones after they were forsaken by the water. The Whalementioned by Sir 11. LEstrange came on shore in 1626; twenty years after 88 SEJZS AND WHALES OF THE BRITISH SEAS. would give 1646 as the date of the Wells specimen; and in December of thatyear, according- to Booths History of Norfolk, published in 1781 (vol. 33), A great Whale was cast on the shore here [at Holme-next-the-Sea],the wind blowing strongly at the north-west, 57 feet lo
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