446 Dr. Camper’s Conjectures relative to the 
dally that of the foffil bones from St. Peter’s mountain ; but 
as the heirs did not confider the expences necefiary to tranfport 
the colledHon down the Maefe, where each fovereign puts an 
enormous duty upon every thing that paffes through his terri- 
tories, nor the fmall number of perfons who were likely to 
purchafe it, they rated the price fo high that nobody chofe to 
bid for It. 
The eldefl: daughter having at length become pofleffed of 
the whole, offered me the principal fpecimens at a price I 
agreed to. Amongft them were the duplicates I have already 
fent to the Britifh Mufeum, and with which the honourable 
Truftees are perfedtly fatisfied. Thefe fpecimens may ferve 
ikewife to afcertain what I have faid about them, as being 
eal fragments of phyfeteres, fome of turtles, and the like, 
but not a Angle one of any fpecies of crocodile. 
§ 3. The arguments for their being jaw-bones and vertebrae 
of fifhes feem to be, firft, the fmoothnefs of thefe bones ; 
and, fecondly, the many holes by which the nerves go otit at 
the fide, and under each tooth, as is very evident in that beau- 
tiful fpecimen now in the Britifh Mufeum, on the outfide of 
which eleven holes are vifible, in the fame manner as they are 
in the delphini, and more particularly in the lower jaw-bone 
of the cete, the Phyfeter macrocephalus, or pot-fifh, cacha- 
lot, &c.. Thirdly, the form of the teeth, which have folid 
roots, as in tab. XV. fig. 6. B, C, E, F, and the fix teeth of tab. 
XVI. Fourthly, becaufe there are little teeth in the palate, as 
in Dean Godding’s fpecimen. Fifthly, becaufe the vertebrae 
have the appearance of true cetaceous vertebrae, as in fig. 5. 
tab. XV. and in feveral beautiful and large fpecimens nowin the 
Mufeum*, Several of thefe vertebrae were befides intirely un- 
knowm 
