FOUND NEAR WHITBY. 



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After all, it must be acknowledged, that, in the 

 conformation of the pectoral fin, and other particu- 

 lars, this fossil animal differs from all living crea- 

 tures hitherto described. It is not unlikely, how- 

 ever, that as the science of Natural History en- 

 larges its bounds, some animal of the same genus 

 may be discovered in some parts of the world. 

 Brown, in his late Travels in Egypt, could not, 

 among all the fishes of the Nile, identify more than 

 one or two, as corresponding exactly with any of the 

 European fishes ; and when the seas and large rivers 

 of our globe shall have been more fully explored, 

 many animals may be brought to the knowledge of 

 the naturalist, which at present are known only in 

 the state of fossils. 



figure, and form, by their union, a compact surface, resem- 

 bling a pavement,'" — Cuvie^s Comparative Anatomy, vol. i. 

 p. 319- — See also his Descriptions of the Metacarpus and 

 Phalanges, pp. 320.-327. 



" DVilleurs, cet humerus, les deux os de favant-bras 

 qui sont tres-comprimes, ceux du carpe dont Faplatissement 

 est tres-grand, les os du metacarpe tres-deprimes et soudes 

 ensemble, les deux phalanges tres-aplaties du pouce et du 

 dernier doigt, les huit phalanges semblables du second 

 doigt, les six du troisieme et les trois du quatrieme, parois- 

 sent unis de maniere a ne former qu'un seul tout, dont les 

 parties sont presque immobiles les unes relativement aux 

 autres."— La Cepede, Hist. Nat. de Cetacees, p. 265. 



