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come one row, and fo they continue to the end : the tail is roundifh at 
the beginning, but from the middle, where the two rows of fins become 
one, it is flat like an oar. The fore.feet have, each of them, five > toes ; the 
hinder feet have only four, which is alfo a mark of the Crocodile-, all the 
lefler lizards, which have fallen under our Author’s obfervation, having five 
toes on each of their hinder feet. In the fore and hinder feet the third and 
fourth toes only are webbed together: The' eyes are very prominent, and 
feem to be contrived that they may be carried above the water while the reft 
of the animalds wholly under water, in order to watch its prey on the fur- 
face, or on the banks and fliores of rivers. The head is covered ; the beak' 
finely creafed tranfverfely; the animal appeared in the fpirits all over of a 
yellowilh olive colour, the under fide lighter than the upper, the upper fid® 
having forne duiky marks and fpots, as reprefented in the fame. This 
fpecies appears to be non-defcript; which feems the more Angular, as" 
our India Company have been fo long fettled at Bengal, and the animal is 
at full growth nearly, if not altogether, as large as-the common Crocodile* ■ 
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