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in no Danger (v. 7.) of having hk Skin filled with harhed Irons, 

 or his Head with Ftpj Spears. The Crocodile is of too great 

 Weight and Magnitude hkewife, (v. i.) to he drawn out of the 

 River, as Fifli ufually are, with a Hook. The Crocodile then, 

 from thefe appofite Charade rift icks, may be well taken for 

 the Leviathan, as it is defcribed above, in the Book of Joh. 

 There is no fmall Probability hkewife, (as, in the earUer Ages, l^erpenf'*"' 

 there was no great Propriety in the Latin Names of Animals, 

 Trav. p. i\,^. ) that the Dragon or Serpent, fuch an one as 

 Regulus is faid to have defeated with fo much Difficulty, upon 

 the Banks of the Bagradas, was no other than the Crocodile. 

 For, this Animal alone, (from the enormous Size, to which 

 it fometimes arrives ; from the almoft impenetrable Quahty of 

 it's Skin, which would hardly fubmit to the Force of warhke 

 Engines;) will beft anfwer, as none of the AS^rpe"^// Kind, pro- 

 perly fo called, will do, to that Defcription. 



The HippopotamtC'S or River Horfe (I ) is here exprefled, as The Kppo- 

 hiding and flieltering itfelf among the Reeds of the Nile!Beh'moL 

 Now the Behemoth is defcribed, Joh/\.o. zi,zx. to lye in the Co- 

 verts of the Reeds and Fens, and to he compajfed ahout hy the 

 Willows of the Brook. The River Horfe feedeth upon the 

 Herbage of theiV/7^; and x\\q Behemoth \s faid, (v. 15-.) to eat 

 Grafs like an Ox. No Creature is known to have ftronger 

 Limbs than the River Horfe ; and the Bones of the Behemoth, 

 (v. 18.) are as ftrong Tieces of Brafs\ his Bones are like Bars 

 of Iron. From all which correfpondent CharaCterifticks, the 

 Behemoth and the River Horfe, appear to be one and the fame 

 Creature. And then again, as the River Horfe, is properly °'' ^'"^ "^ 

 an amphibious Animal, living conftantly in Fens and Rivers • 

 as it might likewife be emblematical or fignificative of Egypt, 

 (inafmuch as it was one of it's moft remarkable Animals ;) the 

 River Horfe may, with greater Propriety, be received for the 

 Bea/l of the Reeds, as [njp n*n] Hhayath Konah is interpreted, 

 {fPf 68. 30.) than either the Lion or Wild Boar \ which may 

 be more properly faid to retire into, or to flielter themfelves 

 in, watry Places, than, out of Choice, to live and make their 

 conftant Abode therein. 



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