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on the Dorsetshire, or Southern coast, and on the Yorkshire, or Northern 

 coast, are the places in this island in which the remains of the animals 

 of this tribe have been chiefly found. The matrix in which they are 

 found is in general similar to that which has been already mentioned 

 as containing the fossils of Honfleur and Havre : a blue limestone, be- 

 cofaing almost black when wetted. This description exactly agrees with 

 the limestone of Charmouth, Lime, See. in Dorsetshire, on the opposite 

 coast to that of France, on which Havre and . Honfleur are situated. 

 At Whitby and Scarborough, where these fossils are also found, the 

 stone is indeed somewhat darker than in the former places; but no dif- 

 ference is observable which can be regarded as offering any forcible op- 

 position to the probability of the original identity of this stratum, which 

 is observed on the Northern coast of France, on the opposite Southern 

 English coast, and at the opposite Northern extremity of the island. 

 Some of these remains are also found in quarries of common coarse grey 

 and whitish limestone. Instances of this kind of matrix, for these remains, 

 are observable in the quarries between Bath and Bristol. 



The Rev. Mr. Hawker, of Woodchester, in Gloucestershire, possesses, 

 perhaps, one of the handsomest specimens of the remains of the croco- 

 dile that has been found in this island. It was found by him in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bath, and contains great part of the head and of the trunk 

 of the animal, which appears to have been of the species noticed by 

 Cuvier, with the gradually tapering jaw. 



