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V. An Account of a new Species of the 
Manis , or Scaly Lizard , extraSled from 
the German Relations of the Danifh Royal 
Miffionaries in the Eaft Indies, of the 
Year 1765, publifhed at Hall, in Saxony, 
by Dr\ Hampe, F. R. S. 
Read Feb. 6, a /%C TOBER the 15th, yefter eve- 
>7/0 * ning a rare and remarkable ani- 
“ mal was in the city of Tranckebar difcovercd in 
“ the wall of an oil merchant’s houfe, and with 
4t difficulty killed. The Mallabars call it Aliingu . 
u It fomewhat refembles a large lizard, except the 
“ head and tail, which are alike as to fhape, being 
“ both pointed, the former not unlike a mole’s. 
“ The whole length is a German ell and five eighths 
44 long, and its breadth half an ell. The tail is 
41 half an ell long, and its broadefl: part a fpan wide. 
The fore feet are a quarter of an ell long, the hind 
“ ones a little longer. The fnout is an eighth of an 
• 4< ell long, and the extremity of it a thumb in thick- 
nefs. The whole body, excepting under the belly 
“ (where it is lmooth for about the 'length and 
breadth of a man’s hand), and under the feet, is 
,c covered with hard, ftrong, fharp, and bright fcales, 
“ fhaped like a mufcle-lhell, the largefi: of which 
,€< are ?of the length and breadth of three fingers. 
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