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vessel t.hat he sits on is at once weighed down, and 

 if he stays there longer actually goes below the 

 water. During the rule of Tiberius," in an island off 

 the coast of the province of Lyons the receding ocean 

 tide left more than 300 monstex*s at the same time, of 

 marvellous variety and size, and an equal number on 

 the coast of Saintes, and among the rest elephants, 

 and rams with only a white streak to resemble horns, 

 and also many Nereids. Turranius has stated that a 

 monster was cast ashore on the coast at Cadiz that 

 had 24 feet of tail-end between its two fins, and also 

 120 teeth, the biggest 9 inches and the smallest 

 6 inches long. The skeleton of the monster to which 

 Andromeda in the story was exposed was brought by 

 Marcus Scaurus* from the town of Jaifa in Judaea 

 and shown at Rome among the rest of the marvels 

 during his aedileship ; it was 40 ft. long, the height of 

 the ribs exceeding the elephants of India, and the 

 spine being 1 ft. 6 inches thick. 



V. Whales even penetrate into our seas. It is Whaies 

 said that they are not seen in the Gulf of Cadiz before grampus^el 

 midwinter, but during the summer periods hide in a 

 certain calm and spacious inlet, and take marvellous 

 dehght in breeding there : and that this is known to 

 the killer whale, a creature that is the enemy of the 

 other species and the appearance of which can be 

 represented by no other description except that of an 

 enormous mass of flesh with savage teeth. The killer 

 whales therefore burst into their retreats and bite and 

 mangle their calves or the females that have calved 

 or are still in calf, and charge and pierce them hke 

 warships ramming. The whales being shiggish in 

 bending and siow in retahating, and burdened by 

 their weight, and at this season also heavy with young 



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