named Than in the Scriptures. 



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graving, which we shall take the liberty to introduce here 

 also, ifig, 20.)] 



M. Bosc mentions a third way of capturing him used in Egypt 

 and Senegal. " As soon as the inhabitants perceive a cro- 

 codile out of the water, they go boldly up to him, and when 

 he opens his mouth to bite, they boldly thrust in the arm 

 with a piece of iron or strong wood pointed at both ends, in 

 an upright position, which hinders him from shutting his 

 mouth again, and then they despatch him with spears." 

 Diodorus mentions that crocodiles were ensnared in iron nets 

 by the ancients. But I hasten to my professed subject. 



The Leviathan. — - This animal is mentioned in Psalm 

 lxxiv. ver. 14.; civ. ver. 26.; Isaiah, ch. xxvii. ver. 1., and the 

 41st chapter of Job. Here it may suffice for me to adduce the 

 description from the latter place. [The 41st chapter of Job 

 consists wholly of a description of the leviathan, and as this 

 description can be referred to by any one, we omit to reprint 

 it here.] The old commentators thought that the whale 

 was the animal here intended, but, as the leviathan was evi- 

 dently an amphibious creature, that idea has been long aban- 

 doned. Beza, Diodati, Bochart, Vansittart, and the modern 

 commentators, pretty generally, agree in considering the cro- 

 codile to be the creature meant. To this identification I can- 

 not assent. 



{Hull, January, 1835.] 



( To be co?iti?iued.) 



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