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ever, which I have been able to make, are such, as far as they extend, 

 as serve to confirm the opinions of M. Cuvier. 



Several fragments, which I have seen, from the Dorsetshire coast, as 

 well as those which I possess, show, that the anterior termination of 

 the snout of one species of these fossil animals, whose remains are found 

 in this island, was long and narrow, like that of the first species described 

 by M. Cuvier. Three other specimens which I have seen, one containing 

 almost the whole skull, and the others the anterior part of the skull, and 

 all having the posterior part of the branches of the lower jaw attached to 

 the upper jaw, manifest decidedly the same gradual approximation of 

 the branches of the lower jaw, which we have seen distinguishes this fos- 

 sil species from all the known species of the sub-genus Gavial. The first 

 of these was exhibited in the London Museum; and, of the latter two, 

 one was in the possession of the late Mr. Row, of Dorsetshire, and the 

 other was exposed for sale by auction. These specimens were all British 

 fossils ; and evinced, by the form of their anterior part, that they had 

 derived their origin from the same species of animal to which the spe- 

 cimens above mentioned had belonged. The union of these specimens 

 prove therefore decidedly, that in this island, as well as on the continent, 

 there exist the remains of a species of crocodile, approaching towards, but 

 essentially differing from, any known species of the Gavial. Of the head 

 of the second species, no specimen which I have seen affords me any 

 positive information. 



Of the two species of vertebrae described by M. Cuvier, I only possess 

 specimens corresponding with those which he supposes to belong to the 

 first species which he has particularized. Two detached vertebrae, which 

 are, I conjecture, from Bath ; three which are disposed in their natural 

 order, and imbedded in the Dorsetshire blue limestone ; and several 

 others, in the same limestone, the sections of which are only seen, are 

 all referable to this first species ; both of their articulating surfaces being 

 slightly concave. 



Somersetshire, particularly in the neighbourhood of Bath, the cliffs 



