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the other remains which accompany those of this animal, there can 
be no doubt of its having been an inhabitant, of the ocean. 
The fossil remains of the extremities of this animal appear to have 
been so rarely found, that M. Cuvier, at one time, was led to suppose 
that it had none. M. Faujas has however given, Mont, de S. Pierre, 
PI. xi. under the name of Scapula, the figure of a pubis, which very 
nearlv resembles that of a monitor. Among the specimens sent from 
Seichem, M. Cuvier found a portion of a real shoulder-blade, much 
resembling, in its form, that of the monitor’s, but very different from 
the narrow shoulder-blade of the crocodile, or from that of the iguana. 
It is right to observe that the bone represented by M. Faujas, Mont, 
de S. Pierre, PI. x. is merely the humerus of a large tortoise. 
P. Camper, as well as his son, speak of, but neither figure nor 
describe, a bone of the carpus and of the phalanges : M. Cuvier, who 
has not seen any of these bones, thinks we may, however, be allowed 
to conjecture, from the agreement of the teeth and vertebras with 
those of the monitor’s, that this animal had five toes ; whilst, from its 
being a marine swimming animal, we have reason to suppose, that 
neither its toes nor hind feet were so elongated as in those reptiles, 
which are for the most part terrestrial. 
Taking all these circumstances into consideration, M. Cuvier con- 
cludes, that certainly on fair, if not indisputable grounds, that this ani- 
mal must have formed an intermediate genus between those animals 
of the lizard tribe, which have an extensive and forked tongue, which 
include the monitors and the common lizards, and those which have 
a short tongue and the palate armed with teeth, which comprise the 
iguanas, marbres, and anolis. This genus, he thinks, could only have 
been allied to the crocodile by the general characters of the lizards. 
The history of this wonderful fossil gives us, then, an instance of 
an animal far surpassing, in its size, any of the animals of those genera 
to which it approaches the nearest, in its general characters : at the 
same time that, from its accompanying fossils, we find reason to be- 
