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bread, and sour milk. Not only the clothes we had on, but 

 the changes in our knapsacks, were wet through ; yet it was 

 with much difficulty the people of the house could be persuaded 

 to light a fire, which, when lit, was insufficient to dry them. 



Next morning at five, we prepared to start again on our 

 journey, though much annoyed at wearing damp clothes. The 

 boatmen laughed at us, saying that dry clothes were of no 

 use at Hardangerfiord as it always rained there ; and they said 

 truly. For the four following days, which we spent on the 

 fiord and its coasts, we had not a dry shirt to wear. The 

 continual excitement of travelling prevented any evils, which 

 such an inconvenience might otherwise produce. From Sand- 

 vig, our course lay through a long and narrow ravine into 

 the main stretch of the Hardangerfiord, the sides of which 

 were formed of stupendous perpendicular precipices, whose 

 dark surfaces were starred with the splendid flowers of the 

 Saxifraga Cotyledon, the most beautiful of its tribe. The 

 peasants style it Berg kongen, the king of the rock ; a most 

 appropriate name for this magnificent plant. Rhodiola rosea 

 grew beside it. The view of the fiord and its mountains, as 

 we sailed through this ravine, was very fine : but a storm soon 

 overcast the scenery with gloom, and we took shelter on the 

 Island of Tiroe, where we found a good inn, a sort of depot 

 for every thing saleable on the fiord. 



( To be continued.') 



Art. II. An Attempt to ascertain the Animals designated in the 

 Scriptures by the Names Leviathan and Behemoth. By Thomas 

 Thompson, Esq., One of the Vice-Presidents of the Hull Lite- 

 rary and Philosophical Society ; being the Substance of a 

 Paper read at a Meeting of that Society on Jan. 17. 1835. 

 [Continued from p. 197.] 



Already we have seen reason to assert that the than of 

 the Scriptures is the crocodile. Then the leviathan could 

 not also be the crocodile; for both animals are distinctly 

 mentioned in the same portions of Scripture; as in Psalm 

 lxxiv. ver. 13, 14?. : " Thou breakest the heads of the thanim 

 in the waters. Thou breakest the heads of leviathan in 

 pieces." Also, in Isaiah, ch. xxvii., "The Lord shall punish 

 leviathan^ and he shall slay the thanim." 



Now, though I deny the leviathan to be the crocodile, yet, 

 if the than be that animal, I should from etymology alone be 

 inclined to expect that the leviathan was of the crocodilian 

 family; the name being compounded of this same word "than," 



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