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will warrant a comparison with the description 

 that is given in the book of Job, of the Behe- 

 moth, we leave to others to judge. "Behold 

 now the Behemoth, which I made with thee ; he 

 eateth grass as an ox." 



That the structure within, is upon the simple 

 plan of the digestive organs of herbiverous quad- 

 rupeds, must be admitted by those who study com- 

 parative anatomy. 



Beza, and others, learned in the history of the 

 sacred writings, contend that the Leviathan, was 

 a crocodile, which was the opinion of Bochart ; 

 but we can discover nothing in the description of 

 that formidable monster, that bears any more re- 

 semblance to it than the basking shark ; which an- 

 swers the precise figure of the Behemoth ; in the 

 whole Bible the word crocodile does not once 

 occur. 



Pennant informs us that they swim with such 

 rapidity and violence, that there has been an in- 

 stance of a vessel of seventy tons having been 

 towed away by one of them, against the wind, by 

 the irons lodged in its body. It is further said of 

 the Behemoth, " His bones are as strong pieces 

 of brass ; his bones are like bars of iron." 



As far south as New Jersey, they have been 

 taken, of greater dimensions, than at the north. 

 By good authority, we have been told of one or 



