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river, the river Elusina, 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 clearness. And Camden tells 

 us of a well near to Kirby in Westmoreland, 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 philoso- 

 pher says, in the third chapter of his ninth book, that in the 

 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 waters 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 



