21 6 AMPHIBI A. 
The eyes of the Crocodile are the belt Aphro- 
difrac of any known by the Arabs, who prefer it to 
all confections of Dia-fatyrii, Hyacinthi, &c. and 
even to Amber-greafe. 
The Crocodile does inexpreffible mifchief to the 
common people of Upper Egypt, often killing and 
devouring women who come to the river to fetch 
water, and children playing on the Ihore, or fwim- 
ing in the river. In the Itomach of one diffe&ed 
before the Englifli Conful, Mr. Barton, they found 
the bones of the legs and arms of a woman, with 
the rings which they wear in Egypt for ornaments. 
He breaks the nets of the fifhermen, if they come 
in his way, and they are often expofed to great 
danger. I found a fillting hook in the palate of the 
Crocodile which I differed. 
Job, in c. iv.v. 20, alketh, “ Can a man draw up 
the Leviathan (Crocodile ?)” And anfwers it in the 
negative ; for it was known even in his time, that 
this animal pofleffed the art of deftroying the hooks 
and other ntenlils of filhermcn. 
I took this deicription at Cairo from one alive> 
the goth of January, 1751. 
Link^-us hath given a deicription of the external 
parts of this creature, in the firffc volume of In* 
Arnocnitates Academ. p. 122. 
54. Lacerta Chamadeon b . The Chameleon. 
I found the remains of various infers in its 
ftomach, viz. Tipultc, CoccionelLx and Butterflies* 
1 faw part of an entire ear of Barley in the exci'C' 
ments, which is very lingular. I could not find ths 
Velica Urinaria (Bladder). 
1 ;i;s nnjmal is very fubjeflr to the Jaundice, c ^' 
pecially if it-is made anery ■ it feldom changes un; 
lets 
