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as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether 

 mill-stone. When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are 

 afraid : by reason of breakings they purify themselves. 

 The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold : 

 the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. He esteemeth 

 iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. The arrow 

 cannot make him flee: sling -stones are turned with 

 him into stubble. Darts are counted as stubble: he 

 laugheth at the shaking of a spear. Sharp stones are 

 under him : he spreadeth sharp-pointed things upon the 

 mire. 



"He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh 

 the sea like a pot of ointment. He maketh a path to 

 shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary. 

 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without 

 fear. He beholdeth all high things : he is a king over all 

 the children of pride." — Job xli. 14-34. 



The most prominent characteristics of the Crocodile of 

 the African rivers are here distinctly painted. The im- 

 ] enetrable nature of the integument, a sort of surface-bone; 

 its arrangement in strong square scales, set firmly edge to 

 edge, one against another in close array ; the peculiar fiery 

 glare of the eyes; and above all, the serried teeth, which, 

 to the number of thirty or more on each side of each jaw, 

 are never concealed by lips, giving to the animal, even 

 when tranquil, the terrific appearance of a grinning rage — 

 are all points that scientific naturalists have dwelt on in 

 their descriptions of these monsters. When we remember 

 that they are among the most gigantic of all animals, far 

 exceeding the Elephant — the Crocodile of the Nile being 

 asserted to attain a length of twetitv-five feet — we shall 



