Petrifactions found in St. Peter’s Mountain* 44^ 
je&ed, that the phyfeteres had teeth only in the lower jaw* 
bone, whereas this foffil monfter had them in both upper and 
lower maxilla. He did not feem to recoiled, that (pvcrqrij g 
fignifies fomething refpiring, or breathing, and applied to 
fifhes, breathing fijhes ; nor that the phyfeteres, according to 
the Linnsean fyftem, have fmall teeth in the upper jaw-bone, 
though larger ones in the lower jaw, according to the obfer- 
vations of Dr. Otho Fabricius, in his Fauna Groeniandica, 
p. 42. where he mentions the macrocephalus , and p. 45. where 
he fpeaks of the microps . 
In Auguft 1782, I fent M. Godding, who had favoured 
me with a copy of his valuable fpecimen, a full demon ftrat ion 
of its being the head of a phyfeter, or breathing fifli, Del- 
phinus, or Orca, or under whatever genus it may be ranked, 
as having large teeth of the fame fize in both the maxillae* 
But in vain ; for he continues ftill to call it a crocodile, as if 
its value depended upon the fpecies of the animal. 
The analogy of all the other marine bodies feems to make 
it ftill more probable, that thefe large bones belong to the 
inhabitants of the fea, and not of rivers. The large turtles, 
the numberlefs echinites, madrepores, Ihells, alcyoniums, be- 
lemnites, orthoceratites, and fo on, are all fea animals ; and 
the crocodile would, in that cafe, be the only inhabitant of the 
rivers mixed with them. 
The pretended crocodile found near Whitby, in Yorkfhire, 
Phil. Tranf. vol. L. p. II. 1758, § 92. p. 688. and ibid. § 108. 
p. 786. is undoubtedly thelkeleton of a Balaena. 
§ '2. After the deceafe of M. Hoffman, his family having 
offered the whole collodion for fale, I went in Auguft 1782 to 
Maeftricht 011 purpofe to examine it ; and I could not but 
greatly admire the richnefs and beauty of the colledion, -efpe- 
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