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•been figured or taken notice of by any author ; which 
is to me a wonder, fince our India Company have 
been fo long fettled at Bengal : and this I have 
reafon to believe, when at full growth, to be near, if 
not quite, as big as the common crocodile. 
College of Phyficians, 
London, May 6, 175:6. 
XCVI. An Account of an unufual Agitatio?i 
of the Sea , at Ildfarcombe, in Devonfhire, 
Feb. 27, 1756. By the Rev. Mr. Prince, 
of Barnftable : Communicated by the Rev . 
Jeremiah Milles, D.D . F. R. S . 
Read May 13, /^~\N Friday, the 27th day of Febru- 
ary laft, at fix in the evening, the 
weather being then extremely fair, as it had been 
for fome time before, and continued for fome days 
afterwards, the fea being exceedingly calm, a rum- 
bling noife was heard, like that, which ufually pre- 
cedes what the failors call a ground-fea, only it was 
much louder. The tide, at that time, was above half 
ebbed, and retired as far as the head of the key, 
leaving the veffels, within the pier, on dry ground : 
when on a fudden the fea came on with a great run, 
filing the quay to the height of fix feet perpendi- 
cular ; and the water remained at the fame height 
near half an hour, but was all the time agitated as 
in aftorm. By this means all the veffels were afloat 5 
fome broke loofe from their moorings, and on the 
recefs of the waters were likely to be carried out to 
fea. , The conflernation, which this occafioned, gave 
no 
