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W12 Gray whale Jan 16/12 Murran
thru sides of postern lip & rams
"pepper salt" (more gray than dark)
sides of peduncle body fork marked
with long gray lines like strials
but probably not. a dark whale
Thrust furms 120 long
Tongue is very perfect & no Photogrp
Length 145 - - widdle curve) 38'
30 thick at thickest - lip cleft - flesh
pink - tongue is rounded with a narm
flattened patch on top - lip infurnt
fairly solid,
W1 - 950 very fine in staight lines
2 - 175' Fleshes are very soft below
3 - 165' within whiteish lines running
4 - 310 transversely across something
5 - 280 like those on a blue whales flukes.
6 - 350
21 - 150
22 - 120
28/ - 68
31 - 155'
32 - 32
33 - 148
34 - 2