REMARKS ON THE LEVIATHAN AND BEHEMOTH. 147 



the only claim being, that the size, power, and ferocity of the mega- 

 losaurus may have been more conspicuous, and that therefore he is 

 the specific animal referred to. After what]has been advanced, how- 

 ever, it will appear that these peculiarities, as represented in the 

 passages quoted, are clearly attributes, comparatively, of the cro- 

 codile; and, moreover, there is no passage from which it can be 

 gathered, that leviatlian means any other than the crocodile of 

 the Nile. 



IVitk respect to the behemoth, although the same assurance may 

 not be arrived at, what species of animal is meant by the term in Job : 

 still, upon the plahicst and fairest principles of critical interpretation, 

 it is demonstrated that no saurian of any kind is meant, but one of 

 the larger herbiverous mammalia. These being expressed by the 

 same tenn, for example Lev. 27, ver. 9, "if it be a beast (behemah) 

 of which men bring an offering to the Lord;" the Hebrews offered 

 only beasts that divide the hoof and chew the cud. Again, Genesis 34. 

 ver. 23, ** Shall not their cattle, and their substance, and all beasts 

 of theii*s (behemethan) be curs ?" 



It has already been noticed that the creation of man and behemoth 

 was contemporaneous, and that the remains of the iguanodon are met 

 with in ancient deposits where those of man are never found ; moreover, 

 that saurians were not created with man, but the mammalia were : 

 in that class, therefore, we must look for the type according with the 

 particular description contained in Job 40, ver. 15 to 24. Every 

 point of the description here seems con'ectly applicable to some large 

 species of the bovine genus of Linnaeus, and the following is a detail 

 of the points of agreement, in the order in which they occur in Job, 

 with reference to the largest unreclaimed species with which we are 

 acquainted — the buffaloes of India and Africa. 



1st. — The buffalo, as we have seen, is included among the animals 

 made in the sixth period of creation with man. 



2nd. — They eat grass as oxen. 



3rd. — The whole bovine genus are full and compact in the region 

 of the loins, when compared with many other races of animals whose 

 bodies are there relatively slender. 



4th. — The second character of beliemoth in the sixteenth verse is 

 more obviously seen at a glance, in the bovine genus, than in any other 

 tribe of mammalia. 



