The Studio · 2026-09-02
The Case Cut
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====================================================================================================================================== | | | ## ######## ## ## ######## #### ######## ## ## #### ## ## | | ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ### ## | | ## ###### ## ## ## ###### ## ######## ###### ## ## ## | | ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ### | | ######## ######## ## ######## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## | | | | A T R U E A N D P E R F E C T R E L A T I O N | | of the GREAT FISH cast up alive upon the sands at HOLKHAM in the county of NORFOLK, | | the third day of February, and there dying in the sight of many hundreds of people. | | | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | _.._ THE CUT HERE SET IS SUCH AS THE OFFICE HAD IN ITS CASE, THERE BEING NO OTHER FISH IN IT. | | (_.-.\ THE BEAST WAS NOT OF THIS KIND, NOR OF THIS BIGNESS, NOR DID IT SPOUT IN THIS MANNER. | | .-, ` WHOEVER STOOD UPON THE SAND ON WEDNESDAY WILL KNOW THE ONE FROM THE OTHER AT A GLANCE. | | .--./ / _.-""-. | | '-. (__..-" \ WE SET IT ALL THE SAME. A SHEET WITHOUT A CUT UPON IT IS NOT BOUGHT. | | \ a | | | ',.__. ,__.-'/ THE TRUE FIGURE FOLLOWS BELOW, TAKEN UPON THE SAND BY OUR OWN HAND AND ROUGHLY CUT. | | jgs '--/_.'----'` IT IS STILL THE BEAST. | | | | | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | BEING CAST UP IN THE NIGHT, AND FOUND AT FIRST LIGHT BY THE : THE UNDER JAW IS NARROW AS A SPAR AND SET WITH SIX AND | | MEN GOING DOWN TO THE COCKLE BEDS, WHO TOOK IT AT A DISTANCE : FORTY TEETH. THE UPPER JAW BEARS NONE, BUT SOCKETS ONLY | | FOR A HULL OVERSET. IT LIVED SOME HOURS AND MADE A NOISE : TO RECEIVE THEM, AND THE FIT OF THEM IS EXACT. | | THAT WAS HEARD IN THE VILLAGE. : | | : IN THE HEAD, WHICH IS THE THIRD PART OF THE WHOLE BEAST, | | THE BREATH WENT OUT AT ONE HOLE ONLY, AND THAT HOLE SET : A CISTERN OF CLEAR OIL, WHICH CAME WHITE AND WAXY AS IT | | FORWARD AND TO THE LEFT OF THE CROWN OF THE HEAD, WHICH IS : COOLED, AND IS SAID TO BURN WITHOUT SMOKE OR SMELL. | | PROPER TO THIS FISH AND TO NO OTHER THAT SWIMS. : | | : THE PARISH IS AT LAW WITH THE LORD OF THE MANOR THIS | | IT WAS DEAD BY NOON. : WEEK CONCERNING WHOSE FISH IT WAS. | | | |====================================================================================================================================| | T H E T R U E F I G U R E , T A K E N U P O N T H E S A N D W I T H A L I N E | | | | & | | /#\ | | # | | # | | # | | / \ | | ####### | | ################################## ############# | | ##################################################################################### | | ######################################################################################### # # | | ################################################################################################# | | #################################################################################################### ######### | | & ##############################################@################################################################### | | /#\ ######## #######%%%%%%%%%%%################################################### | | # ####### #######%%%%%%%%%%%################################################### | | # ##### #######%%%%%%%%%%%################################################## | | # ###########################################%%%%%%%%%%%################################################### | | / \ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% | |~~^~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~| | ~~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~~ ~ ~~~ ~ ~~ | | | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | T H E D I M E N S I O N S , T A K E N W I T H A L I N E U P O N T H E S A N D | | | | LENGTH, SNOUT TO THE FORK OF THE TAIL . . . . 58 FT 0 IN THE HEAD IS THE THIRD PART OF THE WHOLE, | | THE HEAD ALONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 FT 4 IN WHICH ANY MAN MAY PROVE BY THESE FIGURES: | | GIRTH BEHIND THE HUMP . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 FT 6 IN THREE TIMES NINETEEN FOOT FOUR INCH IS | | THE UNDER JAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 FT 2 IN EIGHT AND FIFTY FOOT, AND NO REMAINDER. | | BREADTH OF THE TAIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 FT 0 IN | | THE FLIPPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 FT 1 IN THE MAN STANDING AT THE HEAD IS FIVE FOOT | | THE EYE, NO BIGGER THAN A CROWN PIECE. EIGHT INCHES. THE OTHER IS UPON ITS BACK. | | | | THE OIL OF THE HEAD ALONE, TWELVE BARRELS AND THREE FIRKINS, CLEAR AS WATER AND OF NO SMELL. | | THE BLUBBER, RENDERED DOWN UPON THE BEACH THESE FOUR DAYS, ONE AND SIXTY BARRELS. | | THE BONE OF THE JAW IS SPOKEN FOR. THE REST STINKS, AND THE WIND IS OFF THE SEA. | | | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ::. | | (\./) .-""-. | | `\'-'` \ | | jgs '.___,_^__/ | |====================================================================================================================================| | | | P R I C E O N E P E N N Y | | | | PRINTED THIS WEEK AND SOLD AT THE SIGN OF THE TWO WHALES, AND BY THE HAWKERS AT THE STAITHE. | | THOSE THAT WOULD SEE IT MUST COME QUICKLY. THE WIND IS OFF THE SEA AND THE PARISH HAS HIRED NO MAN TO BURY IT. | | | | | | | | wib&wob | | | | | ======================================================================================================================================
Fig. 1134 across, 94 down.
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