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horn, of which we have been speaking, was beyond all question a 

 dependency of this description : there were even found upon its sur- 

 face impressions of the tegument by which, in all probability, it was 

 coimected with the cranium." j luib ^huif'r.^.ohgoKi oit . , 



Such is the description we find given of the iguainodon. 



I will now give you, for variety's sake, Hanis's translation of that 

 part of the 40th chapter of Job, where the behemoth is described (it 

 differs but triflingly from the Scripture one) ; and I may premise 

 that Harris, being of opinion that the behemoth was the hippopotamus, 

 cannot be supposed to have humoured his translation at all, so as to 

 make it fit the description of so totally a dififerent animal as the 

 iguanodon must have been : 



" Behold now behemoth, whom I made with thee. He feedeth on the 

 grass like the ox. Behold now his strength is in his loins ; his vigour 

 in the muscles of his belly. He plieth his tail, vyhich is like a cedar ; 

 the sinews of his thighs are braced together ; his ribs are like unto 

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

 works of God. He that made him hath fastened on his weapon. 

 The rising lands supply him with food. All the beasts of the field 

 there are made a mock of. He sheltereth himself under the shady 

 trees ; in the coverts of the trees and in 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. Though any one 

 attempt to take him with a net, through the meshes he will pierce 

 with his snout." 



Here is clearly the description of an immense amphibious animal, 

 and had not former writers on the subject been under the impression 

 that the crocodile was the only saurian of sufficient size to answer 

 the description, and that the leviathan was tlie crocodile, I doubt not 

 they would have concluded that the behemoth was a sauriananimal, 

 not the hippopotamus. Assuming it, then, to have been a saurian 

 or lizard-formed animal, let us see how Job's descriptiont allies; 

 with the iguanodon. ; ' ; 



I have, in discoursing on the leviathan, noticed that the descrip- 

 tionist, presuming that that common saurian, the crocodile, was well 

 klOQWB to his Hebrew readers, dwelling so near the Nile, would 

 naturallyi enoiigh describe the saurian he designated by the name of 



