2g; 
of which are only seen, are all referable to this second species ; both 
of their articulating surfaces being slightly concave. 
Somersetshire, particularly in the neighbourhood of Bath, the cliffs 
on the Dorsetshire, or Southern coast, and on the Yorkshire, or 
Northern coast, are the places in this island in which the remains of 
the animals of this tribe have been chiefly found. The matrix in 
which they are found is in general similar to that which has been 
already mentioned, as containing the fossils of Honfleur and Havre : 
a blue limestone, becoming almost black when wetted. This descrip- 
tion exactly agrees with the limestone of Charmoutli, Lime, &c. in 
Dorsetshire, on the opposite coast to that of France, on which Havre 
and Honfleur are situated. At Whitby and Scarborough, where these 
fossils are also found, the stone is indeed somewhat darker than in the 
former places ; but no difference is observable which can be regarded 
as offering any forcible opposition to the probability of the original 
identity of this stratum, which is observed on the Northern coast of 
France, on the opposite Southern English coast, and at the opposite 
Northern extremity of the island. Some of these remains are also 
found in quarries of common coarse grey and whitish limestone. In- 
stances of this kind of matrix, for these remains, are observable in 
the quarries between Bath and Bristol. 
The Rev. Mr. Hawker, of Woodchester, in Gloucestershire, pos- 
sesses, perhaps, one of the handsomest specimens of the remains of 
the crocodile that has been found in this island. It was found by him 
in the neighbourhood of Bath, and contains great part of the head and 
of the trunk of the animal, which appears to have been of the species 
noticed by Cuvier, with the gradually tapering jaw. 
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