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The place, where thefe bones lay, was frequently 
covered with fea-fand, to the depth of two feet, and 
feldom quite bare ; which was the occafion of their 
being rarely feen : but being informed that they had 
been difcovered by fome people two or three years 
ago, we had one of them with us upon the ipot, 
who told us, that when he firft faw it, it was intire, 
and had two fhort legs on that part of the vertebra 
wanting towards the head. Altho’ we could not 
fufpedt the veracity of this perfon, we thought he 
was mistaken ; for we had hitherto taken it for a 
fifh. But when we took it up, and found the os fe- 
moris above-mentioned, we had caufe to believe his 
relation true, and to rank this animal amongft thofe 
of the lizard kind : by the length (fomething more 
than ten feet) it feems to have been an allegator ; 
but I fhall be glad to have thy opinion about it. 
I am thy friend, 
William Chapman Sett. 
The bones were fent up , and are herewith prefented 
to the Royal Society by 
J. Fothergill. 
4 T 2 
XCIII. 
