REMARKS ON THE LEVIATHAN AND BEHEMOTH. 143 



long after the last important convulsion of the earth's surface, involv- 

 ing important changes of temperature. Indeed, proof need not here be 

 furnished, that since that time no change in this respect, to an extent 

 materially affecting the conditions of animal life, has taken place ; 

 modifications there may and undoubtedly have been, from a variety 

 of causes, induced in the climate of many places, but no sweeping 

 change entailing the necessary annihilation of entire genera have, 

 since the last important general catastrophe occurred. 



Now the adaptation of the megalosaurus and the iguanodon to a 

 hot climate is well known ; it is also known that the remains of these 

 creatures are met with in more than one formation or deposit in this 

 island : but, in no formation or deposit where the remains of these 

 extinct saurians have been found, have those of man been discovered. 

 It appears then at least probable that, before the earth was fitted for the 

 habitation of man, it had become no longer suited to the existence of 

 these mighty and unsightly monsters, and that, therefore, we must 

 refer to some post diluvian genus, to tally with the descriptions given 

 in Scripture of the leviathan and the behemoth. Besides, Job says, 

 ** Behold now behemoth which I made with thee ;" and as is stated in 

 the article now considered, " it would seem that whatever was the 

 period of man*s first creation, the same was probably the period of 

 behemoth's creation." True, and the same was the period of the 

 creation of the mammalia. Now although long before and during the 

 deposition of the chalk, the sea and land were inhabited by a variety 

 of large reptiles, and, as geologists tell us, there was a period when 

 these appalling monsters were lords of the creation, still, in respect 

 of the mammalia, and which it is expressly revealed were created with 

 man, their remains are not found but in deposits above the chalk. 



In the work of the sixth day, in which, along with man, behemoth 

 was created, critics tell us that although our translation introduces 

 " creeping things," viviparous mammalia alone are in the original 

 intended, the term being " remes" and that a more correct translation 

 would have rendered this tenn " moving or walking things." More- 

 over, for oviparous insects, which we more easily recognize as 

 creeping things, the Hebrew term is " Sheretz ;" these are named 

 among the beings created not on the sixth but the fifth day, not the 

 sixth period contemporaneous with man, but the fifth, preceding him. 

 The term expressing the other ovipara of this period as great whales 



