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species were found in the same mass with the large specimen of the 

 lower jaw. 



Remains of crocodiles have also been found in other parts of France; 

 as, at Angers and Mans. Some of these remains seem to show, that at 

 least one of the fossil species above noticed is also found in other parts 

 of France besides Honfletir and Havre. 



The remains of crocodiles have been also found in different parts of 

 England ; but particularly on the coast of Dorsetshire, and of Yorkshire, 

 near Whitby ; in the neighbourhood of Bath; and near Newark, in Not- 

 tinghamshire. 



Dr. Stukely describes a stone three feet long, and two feet two inches 

 broad, found at Elston, near Newark, in Nottingham. The Doctor 

 described it as containing the marks of sixteen vertebrae of the back and 

 loins, and eleven joints of the tail ; nine whole or partial ribs of the left 

 side ; the Os sacrum ; the Ilium in situ ; the two thigh-bones, a little 

 displaced ; with the beginnings of the tibia and fibula of the right leg. 

 On one corner, he thought, the vestiges were to be seen of a foot with 

 four toes ; and, at a little distance, an entire toe. The Doctor consi- 

 dered this fossil as the remains of a crocodile or of a porpoise. The 

 stone in which these traces were discoverable, had been used at a well, 

 for placing the vessels on in which the water was obtained. It was of a 

 blue colour, and came probably from Fulbeck quarries, which are on 

 the Western declivity of the long chain of hills which reach through the 

 whole of Lincolnshire, and which contain numerous shells and other 

 marine bodies *. 



M. Cuvier considers this fossil to have derived its markings from the 

 remains of a crocodile : that it could not Jiave been from the remains of 

 a porpoise, he observes, is evident, from vestiges of the pelvis, a part 

 which does not exist in the porpoise, being here plainly observable. He 

 discovers, also, in this fossil, the square and nearly equal sized spinous 



* Phil. Trans. Vol. xxx. p. 963. 



