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and shape must that of the fossil iguanodon have been in every respect. 

 When we notice this resemblance, we cannot but smile at those 

 authors who have disputed whether the little tail of the elephant, or 

 the small one of the hippopotamus, was most like a cedar tree, as they 

 maintained one or the other animal to have been the behemoth. 



Next follows a description of the behemoth's size and strength in 

 other parts. " The sinews of his thighs are braced together; his ribs are 

 like unto pipes of copper ; his back bone is like a bar of iron. He 

 is the chief of the works of God." Nothing can be clearer than that 

 the above description was applicable to the immense iguanodon. 



And now follows an account of a peculiar feature, which seems to 

 have distinguished the iguanodon from all other saurians with which 

 the Hebrews were familiar ; it is intimated in these words : " He 

 that made him hath fastened on his weapon." I entertain no doubt 

 that allusion is here made to the horn, which, in the description of the 

 inguanodon that I have recited [in p. 99.], you will remember is 

 stated to have been placed near the eyes ; and that such was the 

 situation of the weapon, or horn, of the behemoth, I think, will 

 appear from the last two lines of the Scripture description of that 

 animal : " Though any one attempt to take him in a net, through the 

 meshes he will pierce with his snout." And the iguanodon, or behe- 

 moth, if anned with a horn upon the snout, would, no doubt, with it 

 readily tear any net in pieces, even the iron ones used, as Diodorus 

 says, to capture crocodiles. That the horn of the iguanodon is here 

 alluded to, under the description of the weapon of behemoth, I can- 

 not doubt 



The remainder of the account of the behemoth in Job is descriptive 

 of his places of feeding and of rest, and of his size and power, which 

 enabled him to retain his situation even against the most powerful 

 streams. Have we not here, also, particulars corresponding with the 

 account of the iguanodon, both in habit and size? "Hesheltereth himself 

 under the shady trees; in the coverts of the trees and ooze. The branches 

 tremble as they cover him ; the willows of the stream while they hang 

 over him. Behold the eddy may press, he will not hurry himself: 

 he is secure though the river rise against his mouth." Does not all 

 this well correspond with the haunts and description of the iguanodon 

 quoted from Griffith's Cuvier, where he states that the iguanodon 

 inhabited the mouths of fresh water rivers ? 



