. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. vermin. It issupposed that this, instead of the spider, is the animal men-tioned in the thirtieth chapter of Proverbs, and twenty-eighthverse, which has ihws been rendered by Jerome: The gecko taketh hold with her liands,And dwelletli in kings palaces. 10. The crocodile division of the Saurians next claims ourattention. The principal families are those of the alligatorof our Southern States, the cayman of Brazil, the commoncrocodile of the Nile, and the gavial of the Ganges, all ofwhich are represented in the annexed engraving, which
. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. vermin. It issupposed that this, instead of the spider, is the animal men-tioned in the thirtieth chapter of Proverbs, and twenty-eighthverse, which has ihws been rendered by Jerome: The gecko taketh hold with her liands,And dwelletli in kings palaces. 10. The crocodile division of the Saurians next claims ourattention. The principal families are those of the alligatorof our Southern States, the cayman of Brazil, the commoncrocodile of the Nile, and the gavial of the Ganges, all ofwhich are represented in the annexed engraving, which willgive you a better idea of their forms and relative sizes thanany written description could convey. In the true crocodilethe jaws are much more slim and pointed than in the alli-gator; and you will obseiwe, at the end of the long snout ofthe gavial, a large protuberance,^ in which the nostrils aresituated. All these animals are inhabitants of the rivers andfresh waters of warm countries; and, although they breathe Part II. IIEEPETOLOGY, OR REPTILES. 65. Ceocodile OF THE Saueians.—1. Mississippi AWgRtoT^ Alligator Missjssip-piensis. 2. Gavial of the Ganges, Gavialis Gangetica. 3. The Cayman, Caiman ixilpe-brosus. i. Egyptian Crocodile, Crocodilus vulgaris. by means of lungs, they are capable of remaining xmrler wa-ter an hour and a half at a time. Their near alliance^° to thetortoises is seen in the upper covering of their bodies, whichis composed of niimerous large, square, bony plates, set in avery tough leathery hide. In all of them both jaws are setround with formidable teeth, but the uj)per jaw only is mova-ble. The following, descriptive of some of the habits of thecrocodile, will be read with interest: 11. The femnle digs a cavity in the earth, in which she places her eggsin a circular foi-m, in successive layers, and with portions of earth between,the whole being afterward covered up. The nest is generally placed in adry hillock, and the earth is gathere
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