I907.] HAUPT— JONAH'S WHALE. 161 



Perseus and Andromeda reappears in the legend of the patron saint 

 of England, St. George^ and the Dragon in connection with the 

 city of Beyrout in northern Syria. The Bay of Beyrout is known 

 as St. George Bay, and the belief in a hugh sea-monster is still 

 rife there. The Chaplain to the Church of Scotland at Beyrout, 

 Geo. M. Mackie, states^ that when a few years ago a Belgian 

 steamer reaching Beyrout at midnight blew her siren whistles to 

 inform the agents of her arrival, the unprecedentel shriek, which 

 startled the whole town out of sleep, was supposed to be the howl- 

 ing of the marine monster, and next day the chief topic of conversa- 

 tions in the bazaars was the visit of the beast of the sea during 

 the previous night. 



Joseph us^ and Pliny^ state that the holes where the staples 

 of Andromeda's chains had been driven into the rock were shown 

 at Joppa, and Pliny relates that the bones of the sea-monster to 

 which Andromeda is said to have been exposed were brought from 

 Joppa to Rome and exhibited with a number of other curiosities 

 under the edileship of Marcus Scaurus (58 b. c). This skeleton 

 was 40 feet long; the ribs were larger than those of the Indian 

 elephant, and the spinal column was about i^ feet thick. ^ This 

 is preceded by the statement that a sea-monster is said to have 

 been cast ashore, near Cadiz in Southern Spain, which measured 

 16 cubits between the ends of the flukes and had 120 teeth from 6 

 to 9 in. long.^ Sixteen Roman cubits would be about 23 feet, 



^ St. George is said to have been a tribune (of Cappadocian extraction) 

 in the Roman army at the time of the Diocletian persecution of the Christians, 

 who, about 303 a. d. was put to death in Nicomedia. 



2 See Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. II, p. 755*, n. f. 



'^Bell. Jud. III., 9, 3: h'^aT(l)vWv6fjnfie6ac(hajuo)V£Ti(^EiKvviutvoirv7Toi7n(yTovv- 

 rat TT/v apxaioTTjTa tov fiv'&ov. Cf. S t r a b O , § 759 : evrav-^a r^f fiv^evovat. tiveq tt/v 

 'AvSl^n/uedav £KT£-QfjvaL tgJ Kyrei. 



* Nat. Hist., V, 69: lope Phoeniciim, antiqiiior tcrrarum inundatione, ut 

 feriint, insidet collem prccjacente saxo in quo vinciiloriim Andromedcu vestigia 

 ostcndimt; colitiir iUic fabulosa Ceto. Cf. Ovid, Metamorph. iv, 670. 



^Plin. Nat. Hist., IX., 11: Belucu cut dicebatiir cxposita fuisse Andro- 

 meda ossa Romce apportata ex oppido Judcccv lope ostendit inter reliqna mira- 

 cnla in cedilitate sua M. Scaurus, longitudine pedum XL, altitudine costarum 

 Indicos elephantos excedente, spines crassitudine sesquipedali. 



^ Tiirranitis prodidit expulsam heluam in Gaditano litore cujus inter duas 

 pennas ultimcu caudce cubita scdecim fuissent, dentes ejusdem CXX, maximi 

 dodrantiuni uiciisura, mitiitni semipedum. 



