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Show Iu i Surprised at Sight of Whale. Olaus Magnus, bishop of Upsala, tolls how a certain noblo Englishman saw, on Aug. 27, 1532, "a dead beast of vast magnitude" which had been cast up on tho shore nt Telgnmouth. i it was ninety feet long and twenty- five feet in thickness, and evidently ' a whale from tho mention of Its blow holes, and tho fact that Instead of teeth "thoro grew to his palate above 1,000 plates of horn, hairy on one side." Tho noblo Englishman noted j that It had "threo bellies liko vast j caves, and thirty throats, whereof flvo ,' were very great." On Aug. 28, 1730, an Englishman with business instincts .1 saw two flights of birds collide with I' such forco near Preston that 180 ol 1 1, them fell to earth. Ho picked them '1 up nnd sold them In Preston market ' forthwith. "-o " |