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Land he is found to be as timorous and fearful as a 

 hare." 



THE SEA- PIG. 



Again we are indebted to Gesner for the drawing of 

 this Sea Monster. Olaus Magnus, speaking of "The 

 Monstrous Hog of the German Ocean" says : " I spake 

 before of a Monstrous Fish found on the Shores of 

 England, with a clear description of his whole body, and 

 every member thereof, which was seen there in the year 

 1532, and the Inhabitants made a Prey of it. Now I 



shall revive the memory of that Monstrous Hog that 

 was found afterwards, Anno 1537, in the same German 

 Ocean, and it was a Monster in every part of it. For 

 it had a Hog's head, and a quarter of a Circle, like the 

 Moon, in the hinder part of its head, four feet like a 

 Dragon's, two eyes on both sides in his Loyns, and a 

 third in his belly, inclining towards his Navel ; behind 

 he had a forked Tail, like to other Fish commonly." 



THE WALRUS. 



Of the Walrus, Rosmarus, or Morse, Gesner draws, 

 and Olaus Magnus writes, thus : " The Norway Coast, 



