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rape feeds ; and the belly is fcaled, to appearance, a 
little like the laying of bricks in a building. It has 
fins on the out-fides of its fore and hinder legs, as 
other crocodiles have It has alfo a great diftinguifh- 
ing mark of the crocodile kind, viz. two rows of fins 
on the upperfide of the tail, which begin infenfibly 
fmall at the fetting on of the tail, and increafe gra- 
dually as they advance toward the middle of the tail, 
where they become one row, and fo continue to the 
end 3 the tail is roundifh at its beginning, but from 
the middle, where the two rows of fins become one,, 
it is flat like an oar. The four feet have each of 
them five toes 3 the hinder feet have only four, which 
is alfo a mark of the crocodile 3 all the lefter lizards, 
that I have obferved, having five toes on each of 
their hinder feet. In the fore and hinder feet, the 
third and fourth toes only are webbed together. The 
eyes are very prominent, and feem to be contrived, 
that they may be carried above the water, while the 
reft of the animal is wholly under water, in order, 
as I fuppofe to watch its prey on the furface of the 
water, or on the banks and fhores of rivers. The 
head is covered with feveral large fcales. The beak 
is finely creafed tranfverfely, as the ingraving in the 
figure fheweth. As I have been very exaft in my 
figure, which was worked on the copper plate im- 
mediately from nature by my own hand, and in feve- 
ral different views, it will exprefs more than can 
eafily be conveyed by words. It appeared in the 
fpirits all over of a yellowifh olive colour, the under- 
fide lighter than the upper 3 the upper fide having 
fome dufky marks and fpots, as reprefented in the 
print. I do not know, that this fpecies hath yet 
been 
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