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that dances at the noise of music, for with music it bubbles, 

 dances, and grows sandy, and so continues till the music ceases, 

 but then it presently returns to its wonted calmness and clear- 

 ness. And Camden tells us of a well near to Kirby in West- 

 moreland, that ebbs and flows several times every day : and he 

 tells us of a river in Surrey, it is called Mole, that after it has 

 run several miles, being opposed by hills, finds or makes itself 

 a way under ground, and breaks out again so far off, that the 

 inhabitants thereabout boast, as the Spaniards do of their river 

 Anus, that they feed divers flocks of sheep upon a bridge. And 

 lastly, for I would not tire your patience, one of no less authority 

 than Josephus, that learned Jew, tells us of a river in Judea that 

 runs swiftly all the six days of the week, and stands still and 

 rests all their sabbath. 



But I will lay aside my discourse of rivers, and tell you some 

 things of the monsters, or fish, call them what you will, that 

 they breed and feed in them. Pliny, the philosopher, says, in 

 the third chapter of his ninth book, that irTthe Indian Sea, the 

 fish called balcena or whirlpool, is so long and broad as to take 

 up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground ; and 

 of other fish of two hundred cubits long; and that, in the river 

 Ganges, there be eels of thirty feet long. He says there, that 

 these monsters appear in the sea only when tempestuous winds 

 oppose the torrents of water falling from the rocks into it, and 

 so turning what lay at the bottom to be seen on the water's top. 

 And he says that the people of Cadara, an island near this place, 

 make the timber for their houses of those fish-bones. He there 

 tells us that there are sometimes a thousand of these great eels 

 found wrapt or interwoven together. He tells us there that it 

 appears that dolphins love music, and will come when called 

 for, by some men or boys that know, and use to feed them; 

 and that they can swim as swift as an arrow can be shot out of 

 a bow; and much of this is spoken concerning the dolphin, and 

 other fish, as may be found also in the learned Dr. Casaubon's 

 Discourse of Credulity and Incredulity^ printed by him about 

 the year 1670. 



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