444 Dr. Camper’s Conjectures relative to the 
the lower jaw of a crocodile, accurately done by my oWn 
hand, and foon after the (kull and under jaw of a pretty large 
crocodile ; which induced him to defer his defign of writing 
about thefe antiquities of the old world, until he fhould be 
better informed on the fubjed of cetaceous fifties. 
Major Drou in, of Maeftricht, who made, about the fame 1 
time, a colledion of an infinite variety of corals, madrepores, 
alcyoniums, echinites, belemnites, (hells, and petrified wood, 
from the fame mountain and its environs, likewife procured a 
beautiful fpecimen of two maxillary bones of the fame incog- 
nitum, but with the infides turned outwards ; and this gentle- 
man alfo fuppofed them to belong to the crocodile. A (ketch 
of this fpecimen is to be found in M. Bucnoz’s Dons de la 
Nature , tab. 68. But the fpecimen itfelf is now in Teyler’s 
Mufeurn, at Haerlem, with the whole of Major Drouin’s 
colledion. 
Another (till more valuable and perfed fpecimen is to be feen 
at the houfe of the reverend Dean Godding, of which there 
is likewife a rough (ketch in M. Buchoz’s Dons de la Nature , 
pi. 66. In this the greater part of both the upper and under 
maxillary bones is intire, and a bone, with (mall teeth, be- 
longing to the palate ; by which it appears, the animal had 
not only teeth in the jaw-bones, but alfo in the throat, as 
feveral fifties have, but which are never found in the mouth of 
crocodiles. 
Notwithftanding all my endeavours to convince my friends, 
and afterwards M. Drou in, and particularly the Dean, whofe 
valuable and truly beautiful fpecimens I faw in the year 1782, 
I never could prevail upon them to adopt my opinion, that 
thefe bones belonged to phyfeteres or refpiring fifhes. M. 
Hoffmann, adhering clofely to the Linnaean Syftem, ob- 
jeded, 
