REMARKS ON THE LEVIATHAN AND BEHEMOTH. 149 



is very different here from that in respect of leviathan, who is 

 represented in Job as not to be captured by a hook ; for there the 

 allusion is not to any means of capturing a similar animal, but 

 obviously to the fishennan's hook. 



The characters of behemoth ai'e thus in every respect those of the 

 bovine genus, if among the latter can be found a species of size and 

 ferocity which render it untameable by man. Such a species exists 

 in the African buffalo, yet unsubdued by the colonists of the Cape, 

 after attempts have been made to turn his great strength and swift- 

 ness to account for the labour of man. A species of wild Indian 

 buffalo also exists, that for size and ferocity will answer the description 

 of Job, for in that description, it must be remembered, there is much 

 of poetic amplification, like that which we find in the description of 

 the horse, chap. 39, ver, 19 to 25. 



The behemoth was an inhabitant of the valley of Jordan, and is it not 

 more likely that some large species of the buffalo, might in early ages, 

 have inhabited that limited district, than even the elephant or hippo- 

 potamus ? each of which has been conjectured to be the behemoth, 

 although both obviously want some of its characters, and appear to 

 delight in more southern reigions. 



Naturalists are ignorant whether there exists now, any where, the 

 formidable animal described by Julius Cesar, under the name of the 

 Urus, little less in size than the elephant, of the figure of a bull, of 

 great strength, swiftness, and fierceness; the former existence of such 

 an animal, of the bovine race, is demonstrated by their remains 

 being frequently found in England, as well as on the continent, in 

 peat mosses, drained lakes, and marshes, and the most superficial 

 strata. The remarkable skulls of that race have peculiar specific 

 characters, and are about one-third larger than the skulls of domes- 

 ticated oxen. Cuvier has shown that these are the remains of the 

 Urus of Julius Caesar, whose existence, in a live state, has been 

 traced to a much later era than his. 



I( evidence existed that, like the Indian buffaloes, the Unis some- 

 times betook itself to the mai-shes and rivers, it would, in addition to 

 its other characters, coiTespond in all points with the behemoth in 

 Job. 



