*' There is evidence that the crocodile was foond is | Syria at the time of the Crusades. A rep^e of tliis kind has lately been discovered in the Nahr el-Edh. '■ the ancient Lycus. \
" The exploit of Dieudonn6 de Bozoz^ knxgbt of SL ; John, who, when a young man, slew the dragoB of
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Shodes, an exploit which Schiller has celebrated in his Kampf mit dem Drachen/ must be regarded aa a tombat with a crocodile, which had probably been car- ied northward by the regular corrent of the eastern Mediterranean ; for so the picture still extant in the larem of a Turkish inhabitant represents the Haya- r&n Keb^, or Great Beast — a picture necessarily tainted anterior to the expulsion of the knights in 1480. \b De Bozon died Grand Master of the Order at Rhodes n 1353, and the spoUs of the animal long remained hung ip in a church, there is not, we think, any reason to loubt the fBLCtj though most of the recorded circum- (tances may be fabulous. See Dragon. All the an- ient Greek and the later Mediterranean dragons, as hose of Naples, Aries, etc., where they are not allegor- cal or fictitious, are to be referred to the crocodile'' Kitto, 8. v.). See Lizabd.
Crooodilopdlis (icpoKoStiXuv irAtc), the name if a town in Syria, situated near a river of the same lame (CrocodUdn flumeu, between Cnsarea Palestinss md Ptolemais (Strabo, xvi, p. 768 ; Plmy, v, 17, 19). Seland (Pakut. p. 7S9) thinks the latter may have teen the same with the ShihoiuLibnath (q. y.) of Fosh. xix, 26. It is now identified with the Nahr Zarha (Raumeiy Palatt» p. 53, 191X in which crocodiles lave been found (Pococke, TraoeU^ ii, 68 ; Thomson, lomd and Book, il, 244).
Croes, John, D.D., Protestant Episcopal bishop yf New Jersey, was bom June 1, 1762, and ordained n 1790. Having previously acted as lay reader in lie P. £. church of Swedesborough, N. J., he became Is rector in 1792. He was a prominent member in iie Convention of New Jersey for forty years. In 1801 he became rector of Christ Church, New Bmns- ffick, and of St Peter's Church, Spotswood. In 1811 ^e was made D.D. by Columbia College, and in 1816 iras chosen bishop of New Jersey^ having declined the ipiscopate of Connecticut. From the time of his con- secration he observed a system of annual visitations, md bis last public act was an ordination in Christ :3iurch. New Brunswick. He died July 26, 1832. 9e published several charges to his clergy, and a ser- non on The Duty astd the JtUered of corUHlnUing liber- Ubftothe Promotion of ReVgious and BenevoletU Imti- ittions. — Sprague, AfUKilSf v, 878.
Croft, Geoboe. D.D., an English divine, was bom it Skipton, Tork^ire, in 1747 ; admitted at Univer- dty College, Oxford, in 1762, was elected scholar in 1768, and fellow in 1779. In the same year he be- ame vicar of Arncliffe, Yorkshire ; in 1791, lecturer >f St. Martin's, Birmingham, and finally rector of rhwing in 1802. He died in 1809. Ue ynote Thoughts vmcermng the Methodists and the EsiabUehed Clergy [London, 1^96, 8vo) i— Eight Sermons preached in 1786 [Oxf. 1786, 8vo) ! — Sermons preached before the Uni- ^frsity of (hford (Birming. 1811, 2 vols. 8vo).-— Dar- ing, CydopacUa Bibliogrc^hica, s. v.
Crofton, Zachabt, a learned Nonconfbrmist in he seventeenth century, was bom and educated in 3ublin. He obtained the living of Wrensbury, Chesh- re, but, b^ing a zealous Royalist during the Common- wealth, and refusing the engagement, he was deprived. 9e afterwards obtained the living of StBotolph, Ald- ^tc, London. He was ejected for nonconformity in 662, and died in 1672. He published The Saint's 7arefor Church Communion (Lond. 1671, sm. 8vo) : — iltar Worship (Lond. 1661, 24mo).— Darling, Cgclopee- Ua BibUognqfAicOy s. v.
Croisiers, Obdeb of. See Cboss, Obdeb of.
Croly, Geoboe, LL.D., an English divine and niter, was bora in Dublin, August, 1780, and educa- ed at Trinity College. A^r his ordination he went 0 London, and spent some years as a writer for the lewspaper press. In 1886 he was appointed rector of \t Stephen's, Walbrook, and he occupied that parish
with great credit, both as preacher and pastor, up to the day of his death, Nov. 24, 1860. Dr. Croly wrote several extravagant novels and tragedies, among them SakUhiely Marston, and Catiline, His better reputa- tion rests upon his fidelity and power as a preacher, after his appointment to St. Stephen's, and upon hla religious writings, the more important of which are, DU vine Providence, or the three Cycles of Revelation (Lond. 1884, 8vo):— r6« Apocalypse: Prophecy of the Rise, Progress, and Fall of the Church of Rome (3d ed., Lond. 1838, 8vo):— 7%« Popish Primacy, 2 sermons (Lond. 1850, 8vo) '.^Sermons (1848, 8vo). He also wrote a Life of Burke and a Life qf George IV, both reprint- ed in America.
Crombie, Alexahdeb, LL.D., was bom at Aber- deen in 1760, and was educated at Marischal College. He became pastor of a Presbyterian congregation in London, and kept a private school at Highgate, and afterwards at Greenwich, with distinguished success. He died in 1842. His principal works are, Natural Theology, or Essays on the Existence of the Deity, etc (Lond. 1829, 2 vols. 8vo) : — Gymnasium, sive Symbola Critica, 6th ed. 1884, 2 vols. 8vo ; abridged, 1886, 12mo): A Defence (f Philosophical Necessity (1798, 8vo).— Dar- ling, Cydopadia BibSographica, s. v.