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veral depths in the earth, where it is impofiible they 
fliould have been bred, there are not fo many pro- 
ductions of the earth as of the fea; and it appears 
by the accounts of authors both ancient and modern, 
that bones, teeth, and fometimes entire fkeletons of 
men and animals, have been dug up or difcovered in 
all ages, and the moft remarkable for fize commonly 
the moft taken notice of. In the firft particular this 
fkeleton will moft probably appear to have belonged 
to an animal of the lizard kind, quadruped and am- 
phibious ; and as to its fize, much larger than any 
thing of that kind ever met with or found in this 
part of the world ; though, from the accounts of tra- 
vellers, fomething fimilar is ftill to be met with in 
many of the rivers, lakes, See. of the other three. 
When the annexed drawing thereof was taken 
January f, 1758. [ See Tab. XXX.] there remained no 
more of the vertebra than is therein exprefted j that 
is, 10 between D and F, and 12 between G and H: 
but when it was firft difcovered, about 10 years ago, 
they were compleat ; and there was befides the ap- 
pearance of what was then thought to have been 
fins, near the back part of the head at A, the fame 
as appeared further backward at E, when this de- 
lign was made. The vertebra , See. now wanting 
having been either dug up by curious perfons, or 
wafhed away by the violence of the waves at high 
water, and the accidental beating about of ftones, 
fand, &c. during that time ; the water covering this 
ikeleton feveral feet at high water in fpring tides; 
the cavities in the rock ftill remaining as in the de- 
fign. 
The fubftance of the bones, with their periojiium , 
on the covered or under fide, in moft parts remains 
C H 2 intire*. 
