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paws, but points out that it must be an aquatic animal, 

 because of its tail. 



In his Addenda et Emendanda, he gives, on the 

 authority of Olaus Magnus, a picture of an unnamed 



Whale he says it was of great size, and had terrible 

 teeth. 



He also gives us two or three curious pictures of 

 now extinct Cetaceans, something like terrestrial animals 

 or men. And the first is a Leonine Monster, and for 

 its authority he quotes Rondeletius. 



This creature had none of its parts fitted to act as 

 a marine animal of prey, but he says that Gisbertus 

 (Horstius) Germanus, a physician at Rome, certifies that 



