224 CURIOUS CREATURES. 



for them by men, that the Inhabitants there may make 

 their prey of them, or whether they die and consume ; 

 it is certain, that they leave such vast bones behind 

 them, that whole Mansion Houses may be made of 

 them, for Walls, Gates, Windows, Coverings, Seats, 

 and for Tables also. For these Ribs are 20, 30, or 

 more feet in length. Moreover the Back-bones, and 

 Whirl-bones, and the Forked-bones of the vast head, 

 are of no small bigness : and all these by the industry 

 of Artists, are so fitted with Saws and Files, that the 



Carpenter in Wood, joyn'd together with Iron, can 

 make nothing more compleat. 



" When, therefore, the flesh of this most huge Beast 

 is eat and dissolved, onely his bones remain like a great 

 Keel ; and when these are purged by Rain, and the 

 Ayr, they raise them up like a house, by the force of 

 men that are called unto it. Then by the industry of 

 the Master Builder, Windows being placed on the top 

 of the house, or sides of the Whale, it is divided into 

 many convenient Habitations; and gates are made of 



