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CURIOUS CREATURES. 



hoof are cloven like to a Cow's ; and he feeds both on 

 Land, and in the Sea. He is seldome taken, though he 



grow to be as big as an Ox. He hath a forked Tail 

 like a Fish. 



" THE SEA-MOUSE. 



" The Sea-Mouse makes a hole in the Earth, and 

 lays her Eggs there, and then covers them with Earth : 

 on the 3<Dth day she digs it open again, and brings her 

 young to the Sea, first blind, and, afterwards, he comes 

 to see. 



" THE SEA HARE. 



" The Sea-Hare is found to be of divers kinds in the 

 Ocean, but so soon as he is caught, onely because he is 

 suspected to be Venemous, how like so ever he is to a 

 Hare, he is let loose again. He hath four Fins behind 

 his Head, two whose motion is all the length of the 

 fish, and they are long, like to a Hare's ears, and two 

 again, whose motion is from the back, to the depth of 

 the fishes belly, wherewith he raiseth up the weight of 

 his head. This Hare is formidable in the Sea ; on the 



