at the Tide of a Well near the aforefaid Mr. Scuta's 
Farfonage- Houle, where it had ferv’d for a Landing* 
place to chofe that drew Water ; but upon removal, 
the Under fide exhibited this unufual Form, and was 
accordingly taken notice of by that worthy Gentleman, 
and laid up in his Garden for Curiofity-lake Where 
the remaining part of the Stone, which contain’d the 
Upper-part and Continuation of the Sceletoft, or that 
which was the other fide, and tally’d with it, may be, 
is now utterly unknown : but upon view, I am per- 
fuaded, it cannot be reckon’d Human, - but Teems to 
be a Crocodile or Forpoife. There arc Sixteen rerte- 
ht‘£ of the Back and Loyns very plain and diftind:, 
with their Procefles and intermediate Cartilages, Nine 
whole or partial Ribs of the Left-Tide, the Os Sacrum^ 
JUum in Jitu, and two Thigh-Bones difplac’d a little, 
the Beginnings of the Tibia and Fibula of the Right- 
Leg ; on one Corner there feem to be the yefli^ia of 
a Foot with four of the five Toes, and a little way 
off an entire Tod> now left perfed in the Stone: there 
are no lefs than Eleven Joints of the Tail, and the 
Cartilages between them of a White Colour diftin- 
guifhable from the reft We fhould impofe upon our 
Senles, to quefiion, whether thefe be the real Reliques 
of an Animal ; for the very Bones themfclves are now 
to be feen as plainly, as if prelerv’d in an Egyptian 
Mu,mmy ; a .very little while ago, the Society had a 
Draught of a Crocodile, tho’ a fmall one, found af- 
ter the like manner inclos’d in Scone, from a Quarry 
in the Mountains of upper Germanj. I fuppofe the fame 
Reafbn accounts for both and all the reft of thefe 
kind of Fofiils, and 1 pleafe my felf in an ocular E* 
vidcnce, and fb great a Confirmation of what f had 
the Honour to prefenc to the lio^al Society, in a late 
Difeoutfe, where I hinted ac_a Solution of fome ob- 
vious 
