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Pompey's Pillar

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For that, the best way we can consider it is, with a crane, to pile its bones high up on end. No speedy enterprise. But now it’s done, it looks much like Pompey’s Pillar.

There are forty and odd vertebræ in all, which in the skeleton are not locked together.

Chapter 103, Measurement of The Whale’s Skeleton · verse 9

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