This skeleton lay about six yards from the foot of the cliff, which is about sixty yards in perpendicular height, and must have been covered by it probably not much more than a century ago. The cliff there is composed of various _strata_, beginning from the top, of earth, clay, marle, stones both hard and soft, of various thicknesses, and intermixed with each other, till it comes down to the black slate or alum rock, and about 10 or 12 feet deep in this rock, this skeleton laid horizontally, and exactly as designed. The probability, that this cliff has formerly covered this animal, and extended much more into the sea, is not in the least doubted of by those that know it. The various _strata_, of which it is composed, are daily mouldering and falling down; and the bottom, being the slaty alum rock, is also daily beat, washed, and wore away, and the upper parts undermined, whence many thousand tuns often tumble down together. Many antient persons now living, whose testimony can be no way doubted of, remember this very cliff extending in some places twenty yards further out than it does at present. In short there is sufficient evidence, that at the beginning it must have extended near a mile further down to the sea than it does at present; and so much the sea has there gained of the land. These are the principal facts and circumstances attending the situation and discovery of this skeleton; which from the condition it is in, and from the particular disposition of the _strata_ above the place where it is found, seem clearly to establish the opinion, and almost to a demonstration, that the animal itself must have been antediluvian, and that it could not have been buried or brought there any otherwise than by the force of the waters of the universal deluge. The different _strata_ above this skeleton never could have been broken through at any time, in order to bury it, to so great a depth as upwards of 180 feet; and consequently it must have been lodged there, if not before, at least at the time when those _strata_ were formed, which will not admit of a later date than that above-mentioned. _P. S._ In the xlixth vol. page 639, of the _Philosophical Transactions_, an animal is described by Mr. Edwards, which was brought from the Ganges, and resembles this in every respect. He calls it _Lacerta (crocodilus) ventre marsupio donato, faucibus Merganseris rostrum æmulantibus_. [Illustration: _Philos. Trans. Vol. L._ TAB. XXXI. _p. 791_. PHŒNICIAN Coins. _J. Mynde sc._] CIX. _A Dissertation upon the_ Phœnician _Numeral Characters antiently used at_ Sidon. _In a Letter to the Rev._ Thomas Birch, _D. D. Secret. R. S. from the Rev._ John Swinton, _M. A. of_ Christ-Church, Oxon. _F.R.S._ [Read Dec. 7, 1758.] Reverend Sir,