The Crocodile Pond of JHuggerpeer 



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animal life existed, for I found where the water " The other spring gushes from under a bed of lime- 

 bubbled up from its sandy bottom, and in the little stone, containing numbers of fossils, chiefly coral, and 

 lade nmning to the tank, abundance of a small species other marine zoophites. We had a refreshing bathe 



of small black spiral shell, which Mr Woodward in- 

 formed me is 'very like some in the British Museum, 

 named Melania pyramis, an allied species of which 

 frequents the river Jordan. ' 



in a reservoir close by ; the temperature, though not so 

 high as the last, ^\■as still M-arm and pleasant. I 

 should be sorry, however, to repeat the experiment, 

 not from the chances of meeting with a crocodile 



