148 REMARKS ON THE LEVIATHAN AND BEHEMOTH. 



5th. — The tail of this genus, with the bushy tuft of hair at its 

 exti-emity, and which the animal tosses continually when teased with 

 insects, or threatening combat, would readily suggest to a poetical 

 imagination the simile of the bare trunk and branchy top of the 

 cedar. 



6th. — The bovine genus, when threatening combat, place themselves 

 in contorted attitudes, which inspire fear in those who see them. 



7th. — The bones and skeleton are strong and large, as described 

 by Job in his poetical language. 



8th. — To an individual living near the valley of the Jordan, who 

 might be unacquainted with the elephant, and larger species of 

 rhinoceros, one of the large bovine species might appear the chief 

 of the works of God among land animals ; and it is obviously with 

 them that the comparison is made in the first clause of the 19th ver.; 

 for the author says nearly the same thing of the leviathan (which 

 would raise in his mind a different set of comparisons) that he says 

 here of the behemoth. In Job 41, ver. 33, it is said of the leviathan 

 " upon the earth there is not his like." 



9th.— Of some of the large bovine species it might also be said, 

 by one who knew not the arts of killing it afterwards invented, *' That 

 he who made it" could alone make a weapon fit to assail it. 



10th. — The bovine genus are inhabitants of the mountains as well 

 as the plains. 



11th. — Even the tame buffaloes of India set at defiance, and beat 

 off and kill the Bengal tiger, one of the largest predaceous animals. 



12th. — The buffaloes, while at times they feed on the motmtains, 

 delight also in the jungle and shade of trees, and to wallow in the 

 mud, and even to bury themselves in it up to the eyes. 



13th.— They take the water without fear, and it appears, resort 

 to the streams for pastime or food. Of the Cape buffaloes it is said 

 " they swim with great force." 



14th. — The domesticated oxen and buffaloes are secured in the 

 East, and have probably been so from the earliest time, by a ring 

 passed through the gristle of the nose, an effective method of guiding 

 these animals, common in managing our own bulls and oxen. By the 

 obvious reference to this practice in respect of the domesticated races 

 in Job, we may infer that the behemoth was of a similar race ; though, 

 from his size or ferocity, immanageable by similar means. The case 



