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coming story, and in David Copperfield he describes Betsy 

 Trotwood's cottage as being in this pilots' field, or thereabouts. 

 Before this "look out" was arranged, the pilots used to be kept 

 waiting about in their cutter, ready to take the homeward bound 

 ships safely into port, but at last this was thought inhuman, and 

 an unnecessary exposure in bad weather ; and a careful watch was 

 kept by two pilots on the cliff, and a boat was always in readiness 

 to take them off when required, and this plan is adhered to in the 

 present day. 



The pilots in the 1 7th century built a gallery in the west end 

 of St. Mary's, in front of the ponderous organ, for their especial 

 use, when they wished to attend Divine Service, and they obtained 

 a faculty to hold the same so long as they kept it in repair. No 

 one of the gentler sex was allowed to sit in that gallery. The 

 front was adorned with an elaborate emblematical device, which 

 has been lately sold as a relic of the past, and is preserved in 

 a collection relative to Dover. A. chandelier for the better lighting 

 of St. Mary's Church was also given, in 1742, by the pilots, to 

 match one subscribed for by the parishioners in 1738. We should 

 not think that these chandeliers gave a very brilliant light, for 

 they were only calculated to hold twenty-four tallow candles each, 

 but it was the best that could be done before gas-lights were 

 thought of, or composite candles invented. The gallery and the old 

 organ have long since been removed, which has exposed to view the 

 curious old Roman Western Arch, which was entirely hidden in 

 olden days. 



XXXI. 



CROCODILES AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES, 



BY 



CAPTAIN McDAKIN. 



The crocodile inhabits Asia, Africa, America, and Austral.a, 

 but not Europe. 



Two well defined species occur in India, the true crocodile 

 (native Mugger) and the Gavial (native Nacoo). The alligator is 

 only met with on the American Continent ; there is but one 

 instance of its having been found in any other part of the world, 

 and that is in one of the Chinese rivers. The one may be 

 distinguished from the other by the fourth tooth on the ramus of 

 the lower jaw showing on the outside, when the crocodile closes 

 its mouth ; the corresponding tooth of the alligator is hidden from 

 view by being received into a pit in the upper jaw. 



