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wore away, and the upper parts undermined, whence 
many thoufand tuns often tumble down together. 
Many antient perfons now living, whofe testimony 
can be no way doubted of, remember this very cliff 
extending in fome places twenty yards further out 
than it does at prefent. In fhort there is fufficient 
evidence, that at the beginning it muff have exten- 
ded near a mile further down to the fea than it does 
at prefent ; and fo much the fea has there gained of 
the land. 
Thefe are the principal fadts and circumflances at- 
tending the fituation and difcovery of this fkeleton; 
which from the condition it is in, and from the par- 
ticular difpofition of the firata above the place where 
it is found, feem clearly to eftablifh the opinion, and 
almoft to a demon fl ration, that the animal itfelf mud 
have been antediluvian, and that it could not have 
been buried or brought there any otherwife than by 
the force of the waters of the univerfal deluge. The 
different firata above this fkeleton never could have 
been broken through at any time, in order to bury it, 
to fo great a depth as upwards of 180 feet; and con- 
fequently it muft have been lodged there, if not be- 
fore, at leaf; at the time when thofe firata were form- 
ed, which will not admit of a later date than that 
above-mentioned. 
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P. S. In the xlixtli vol. page 639, of the Philofophi- 
cal Tran) a 5 t ions, an animal is defcribed by Mr. Ed- 
wards, which was brought from the Ganges, and 
refembles this in every refpebt. Ele calls it La- 
cert a (crocodilus) ventre marfupio dona to , faucibus 
Merganferis rojlrum cemulantibus. 
CIX. 
