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ïfjtca»te ^ I. have quoted thefe veiles, as a kindwof a teltimony to the
rather than n èxiftence properties of this extraordinary creature. The fup-
pofition that the • Sea*feake anfwerslhe defaiptioft of the Lcvir
athan better than any other animal yet known ^ and may be
underftood by the Leviathan, or thé Crooked-ferpent, Ifeiah
xxvit that fhall'flay the U^gon that is, in ,the .feaj or that
it may be the Long-ferpent mentioned in Job 'kxvil 13 « ‘is* not
without feme foundation. That it is th e Pïércing-ferpenlPoir the
Boom-ferpent,“ Serpens xeéÜS, aftcofeJing to lome aiifhors,. is. hot
improbable ; for they often lie ftretched out before a creek, like
a boom, to block up the paflage. I f Bochart had had any
knowledge of" this xreaturef^%lïifcht%i;’Véry «MaH kh®?|f^ any
where but in the North, he probably, would inot have taken the
Whale to be the Leviathan. **' CetüïnHebraei iifilem nominibus
appellant quibus draconem nempe Thannin & Leviathan, aut.ob
formae limilitudinem, aut ra tione molis, & quia'Cetus in aqua-
tilibtts tantum praeftat, quantum in repülio® prseflant vlft-ute
DraconesA Hierozoic. Lib. i.-ekp. vi. p. 45. The ,_flmilltude "of
- fhape, which writer?, urge betwixt the Whale, and the Dragon, is
what I cannot find o u t ; not can I difcover how this.,author (whom
I otherwifc efteem as one of the öioft learned
produced) comes today, in the feme place, p. Balëeffam
multi volunt ideo dici_'^Q!^ra Serpen tem védüs, Ifeiah x^&ik -j,
quod af» uno maris extreme ad alterum,:. ve&isfaftarv .afting?fc”
This does not at all agree witÉcfheJ^L^ftj> ^hichrigdplfoajjy but
5.d, ?7o, or at inoft 80 feet in length * > jat leaft net near fo well
as with the Sea-lhake. The length of tWs creature, as I obferved
above, according to our'fifliermeri, who have feen them, . is equal
to that of a cable, that 13,-600 feet. Thèfe Sêa-fnakes alfe, Tike
other creatures, may to t be dll exaöly of afize.5 but feme, -peB-
haps, may be found twice as large as others of their kind-, asmay
be obferved of thé Land-dhakes, which differ rery much in fee;
I have been informed by feme of our fea-faring men, that a cable
would not be long enough to meafere the length of feme of them,
when they are obferved bn the furface of the water- in an even
line. They fey thofe round lumps or folds femetimes lie, one,
* Bochart in the lame place difclafeifc dié Talnttldiïh palpable falfitiei. about' tbt
Whale’s £ze-,- &c. “ Hebrsei fepe mendaces in hoc argutaentd jDQtaffimum iraefl-
tijpfflsir liberaliflime. In illis modöftiSStml cetis qtiii^entórum ft&JiqFumjOixgltu dine»»
affignant, hoc eft milliarium plus fexagi'nta. In Traöfcatu Talmudico Bava Bath'ra,
;_\7 3 ‘ co1- 2. Navis quasdam jin dorfo ceti riavigans, iter ab una pinna ad alteram,
tertio demum die confecit.
after
I confefe, if this be true,
tMt- wfe muft fuppafeéaofl: psobably that l t is not One Snake, but
two owWreJof thefe cteaif ure%ing.in a line, that exhibit this phæ-
hT O om Thisimayhappetens. they follow on© another, efpecially
t l « H P couplé together :
at rtrfos feafen-alfouthey may he induced to follow boats, âs I have
m m m before; What the'word
1 the Leviathan,
5<^9^ % t e a n 4 aa C r^ k ed ^ rp enL i. e. he k
oon bentcim atmrvë, and; feed* ftfetèhèd hgais in a lirait line,
agrees^ p rfe «% ,withrthxs Sea-fnake, according to what has already
been lard Ï . i t -May not:be theftptTuperflaeus hère to quote
the: jwprttofi.-Mr.' » Raffiusyi im his Dëferiptibn-'of Norway
which is as folio,Ws; : ‘CAnto- x=ôl^ alargé'Sêâ*.fnake was
i# n by many people in Dramsfiofdeny and at one time by eleven
pesons togdtherr. It was lî ^ y - è a î ^W ê â th e r |
tiie,Jun appeared,, and; the wind, -blew-a’ little : §9 A e t aw;ay ■ ^
, Iffcp .a coiled cable, th a ^ s T u d ^ ly ^ r o w n .oftt,by the faildrs ■
m t]? ^ bff 7 edthal:. it,'f as fometimeM ftmfching out its man^
fold?,/,Ok Magnus, aft his Hifeor. -SêflfifcitHbh.; L®. â x h : t ê p t i l
ipêaks <ft_ a NOrvegian Sea-.feake/= 8aj feet lo’ngf but not thicfeS
foan a ^ i l d saÿm. à é é M H ttcÆ u ^N d ^ |k is?wWmîs glauCT
qoforis, fongitudme. id. .cufeitorump.& .-ftm^ius kix foiMuflftefo
mfoatia. braphir . » f fe a tu re ,^ h e w a s put to
luch pain by the Crabs faftenmg on itynhatvi*; writhed itfelf into
a hundred foapes.,rql hatfemeverheard of. thisifort-ffom^hy otMel
pftrion^iand foould hardly Irelieve the good 0laii8, if he did not
fey that he affirmed this from bis fawn experience. u Hünd
v e tm e tn fæpitis vidi^ab e ju s ta a ^ ; hautârum «fernSàticme, - « S
BS 5 ? ------- m The p ro p o r tio n betwikt the thicknefs of a
child s arm, and a length ofi€® feet, makes me think them m utt
be an error of the prefs m thé place, for xl. perhaps foould' be
X1r - L ? r t 2 , ^ a more pmportionable length for the thick-
nefe. "Of the o£her S e a ^ b e _fo£Tamx_author..lwri
bu/ he w r t L u t h ^ d S l S h e r , according to
the relations of others ; but this was esrcufable in that dark age,
Ü : g H l M M w É K
when