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has gone so far, as to determine it to be actually a Gavial ; but his 
error is at once proved, by the shortness of the muzzle. Cuvier, on 
the contrary, shows that this head alone determines the genus of this 
animal. If it had been the head of a crocodile, there must have been 
at least fifteen teeth in the lower jaw, and seventeen or eighteen in 
the upper jaw ; and which would have reached to beneath the middle 
of the orbits : but in these fossil remains there have been but eleven, 
which stop at the anterior angle of the orbit. These are the charac- 
ters of one of the numerous species which have been heaped together 
bv Linnasus, under the name of Lcicerta monitor, and distinguished 
by Daudin by the inappropriate generic name Tupinumbis. 
In the fossil of Swedenborg, the hind feet, the impressions of which 
are well preserved, show five unequal toes, of which the fourth is the 
longest These are formed of the number of small bones, and in the 
order here set down, beginning with the thumb, and including the 
metacarpal bones — 3, 4, 5, 6, 4; but in that species of ape Guenon, 
or Cercopithecus, the number and order would be 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, and 
the third toe the longest. In Linck’s specimen the same series is 
discoverable as in Swedenborg’s. 
Hence it appears, that the number and order of the toes, as well 
as the number and order of the articulations of each toe, of this fossil 
animal, precisely agree with those of the monitor, as well as of the 
common lizards and of the iguana ; but not at all with those of the 
crocodiles, which have on their hind feet but four toes, differing but 
little in length, and the number and order of bones being 3, 4, 5, 4. 
In the fore feet of the fossil animal five nearly equal toes may be 
made out. This agrees with those of the crocodile and lizards, but 
in these the last toe is evidently smallest. 
The length of the fossil animal appears to have been about three 
feet, which is about the size to which the monitors of Egypt, of 
Congou, and of the East Indies, generally attain. Of these fossil 
animals having, therefore, belonged to some species of animals 
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