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skeleton of tlie animal to have approached very ^ 
twenty-four feet. ^i,iliv' 
The head is a sixth of the whole length of the^ 
a proportion approaching very near to that of the , 
but ditferiug much from that of the monitor, 
which animal forms hardly a twelfth part ot 
length. 
The tail must have been very strong, and its 'V>' 
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extremity, must have rendered it a most poweriu* 
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have enabled the animal to have opposed the (fiiff, ' 
waters, as has been well remarked by M. Adrieif_^^,vl'> ‘ 
From this circumstance, and from the otlier rc®* 
accompany those of this animal, there can be i)0 
its having been an inhabitant of the ocean. 
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Taking all these circumstances into consider';''' ijv 
Cuvier concludes, and certainly on fair, if not lUd 
grounds, that this animal must have formed ad ((t 
diate genus between diose animals of the 
which have an extensive and forked tongue, wh'dd 
the monitors and the common lizards, and th®® 
have a short tongue, and the palate armed 
which comprise the iguanas, marbres, and and t 
genus, he thinks, could only have been allied to 
codile by the general characters of the lizards. 
FOSSIL REMAINS OP RUMINANTI^’ 
Among the fossils of the British Empire, 
calculated to excite astonishment than the 
horns which have been dug up in different parts o 
Their dimensions. Dr. Molyneux informs n®' 
follow 
From the extreme tip of each horn 
From the tip of the right horn to its root. . . > 
From the tip of one of the inner branches to 
the tip of the opposite branch 
The length of one of the pidms, within the 
branches 
The breadth of die .same palm, within the 
branches 
The length of the right brow antler. . . . . . t • 
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