mere the Ibis 

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them moft watchful Animals ; the former whereof was ob- 

 The Croco- ferved to fleep with his Eyes open. To thefe we may add 

 the Crocodile ', which, like the Supreme Being, had no need 

 of a Tongue, and lived the fame Number of Years, as there 

 were Days in the Year. And again, as Ofir'is was the Kile \ 

 He was typified alfo, in that Refpedt, by the Crocodile^ which 

 other wife was looked upon as a Symbol of Impudence"; of an 

 evil T>iemon ' ; and of Tyfhon % who was always fuppofed to 

 KiBuU. 2iQi contrary to the benign Influences of Ifis and Ofir'is. How- 

 ever the Bull \ the Aps ^ or Mneniis, and the fruitful Deity % 

 of the all-teeming Earth, as ^puleius calls it, was the princi- 

 pal Symbol of Ofiris. It was accounted facred, for the great 

 Benefit and Service it was of to Mankind ; and becaufe, after 

 Ofiris was dead, they iuppofed his Soul to have pafl^ed into it. 

 i^'ss^jmbois. The Bull too was one οϊ Ifis\ Symbols ; who was alfo repre- 

 c«.''iented by the Jhis^ and the Cat ', the former whereof bringeth 

 forth, in all, the fame Number of Eggs, the latter of young 

 Ones, as there are Days in one Period of the Moon. The 

 Mixture alfo of black and white Feathers in the Plumage of 



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