named Behemoth in the Scriptures. 3 1 3 



now behemoth, which I made with thee ; he eateth grass as 

 an ox. Lo, now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in 

 the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar ; the 

 sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as 

 strong pieces of brass ; his bones are like bars of iron. He 

 is the chief of the ways of God : he that hath made him can 

 make his sword to approach unto him. Surely the mountains 

 bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. 

 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and 

 fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow ; the 

 willows of the brook compass him about. Behold, he drinketh 

 up a river, and hasteth not : he trusteth that he can draw up 

 Jordan into his mouth. He taketh it with his eyes : his nose 

 pierceth through snares." (Verses 15. to 24.) 



The opinion I have formed as to the particular animal in- 

 tended by the Hebrew word " behemoth " is, that it was the 

 now extinct saurian animal known to geologists by the name 

 of iguanodon, found in a fossil state in the same situations as 

 the fossil megalosaurus. 



As I mean to pursue the same course, in giving my reasons 

 for this belief, as I did in explaining why I have thought the 

 leviathan to have been the now extinct megalosaurus, I shall 

 extract a description of the iguanodon from authors who have 

 written on the subject, and then contrast that description with 

 that of the behemoth mentioned in the 40th chapter of Job. 

 The following description of the iguanodon, extracted from 

 Griffith's translation of Cuvier's work, Fossil Remains, may 

 answer our purpose. 



" The sandstone of Tilgate and the Wealden deposits con- 

 tains a quantity of organic remains of various kinds ; amongst 

 others, teeth of an unknown herbivorous reptile (the iguanodon), 

 differing from any hitherto discovered either in a recent or 

 fossil state." Griffith, in his translation, says, " So great is 

 the difference between the teeth of the crocodile, the mega- 

 losaurus, and plesiosaurus, and so much do they differ from 

 other lizard tribes, that it is scarcely possible to commit an 

 error in their identification. But some other teeth were dis- 

 covered, in the summer of 1832, in the sandstone of Tilgate, 

 which, with an obvious indication of herbivorous characters, 

 exhibited other peculiarities of so remarkable a kind as to 

 arrest the attention of the most superficial observer, and 

 announce something of a very novel and interesting description. 

 Mr. Mantell made a comparison of these teeth with those of 

 existing lizards in the museum of the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons. The result of this comparison proved most satisfactory : 

 They found in the iguana teeth decidedly analogous to the 



