Only two suppositions seem to be open to usEither each species of crocodile has been specially created, or it has arisen out of some pre-existing form by the operation of natural causes.

The crocodile tears which Elizabeth is said to have shed when the death of her sister Mary was announced to her at Hatfield were soon wiped away in the pomps and enthusiasms which hailed her accession to the throne.

[reptiles] alligator, crocodile; saurian; dinosaur (extinct); snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick^. [amphibians] frog, toad.

The crocodile, I presume, owes that inaptitude to the absurd length of his back; but in our grandpapa it arose rather from the absurd breadth of his back, combined, probably, with some growing stiffness in his legs.

Now upon this crocodile infirmity of his I planted an easy opportunity for tendering my homage to Miss Fanny.

Mr. Waterton tells me that the crocodile does not changethat a cayman, in fact, or an alligator, is just as good for riding upon as he was in the time of the Pharaohs.

That may be; but the reason is, that the crocodile does not live fasthe is a slow coach.

I believe it is generally understood amongst naturalists, that the crocodile is a blockhead.

The crocodile made the ridiculous blunder of supposing man to be meant chiefly for his own eating.

The use of the crocodile has now been cleared upit is to be ridden; and the use of man is, that he may improve the health of the crocodile by riding him a fox-hunting before breakfast.

The use of the crocodile has now been cleared upit is to be ridden; and the use of man is, that he may improve the health of the crocodile by riding him a fox-hunting before breakfast.

And it is pretty certain that any crocodile, who has been regularly hunted through the season, and is master of the weight he carries, will take a six-barred gate now as well as ever he would have done in the infancy of the pyramids.

Then comes a venerable crocodile, in a royal livery of scarlet and gold, or in a coat with sixteen capes; and the crocodile is driving four-in-hand from the box of the Bath mail.

" Arthemedorus the grammarian lost his wits by the unexpected sight of a crocodile, Laurentius 7. de melan.

Perhaps the crocodile or alligator.

He himself, indeed, he had said, ere now, had been probably a pterodactyle of the Lias, neither fish, flesh, nor good red herring, but crocodile and bat in one, able alike to swim, or run, or fly, eat anything, and live in any element.

She married don Clavijo, but the giant Malambru'no, by enchantment, changed the bride into a brass monkey, and her spouse into a crocodile of some unknown metal.

On the sugar plantations of Louisiana it was not a question between the white man and the negro, but between the negro and the crocodile.

He would say that between the negro and the crocodile, he took the side of the negro; but between the negro and the white man, he would go for the white man.

JOHNSON, FREDERICK G., joint author. Stage guide for Crocodile Island.

FREDERICK G. Stage guide for Crocodile Island.

SEE Morgan, Geoffrey F. JOHNSON, FREDERICK G. JR. Stage guide for Crocodile Island.

Some Creatures cast their Eggs as Chance directs them, and think of them no farther, as Insects and several Kinds of Fish: Others, of a nicer Frame, find out proper Beds to [deposite ] them in, and there leave them; as the Serpent, the Crocodile, and Ostrich: Others hatch their Eggs and tend the Birth, 'till it is able to shift for it self.

I remember to have read in Diodorus Siculus an Account of a very active little Animal, which I think he calls the Ichneumon, that makes it the whole Business of his Life to break the Eggs of the Crocodile, which he is always in search after.

The natives who live along the banks of the Nile relate the same fact concerning the female of the crocodile, whose belly exhales the perfumes of Araby.