268 On the Animals designated in the Scriptures by 



ever ?" How obvious does it thus become, that " Thou brakest 

 the heads of the Thaninim in the waters," is a thought repeated 

 in the terms which follow, " Thou brakest the heads of Levia- 

 than in pieces." 



In the progress of our investigation, then, we have found 

 Than unquestionably employed by Ezekiel to express the Cro- 

 codile of the Nile, and Leviathan employed both by Isaiah and 

 the author of the seventy-fourth Psalm, synonymously with 

 Than, in passages where both these last authors professedly re- 

 fer to Egypt or the Egyptians. We have also seen that Than 

 is frequently used to express other saurian or ophidian races. 

 But we would now observe, with respect to Leviathan, that 

 there is no passage in which we can gather, from the context, 

 that it means any other animal than the crocodile of the Nile. 



The oniy other passages in which the term occurs are Psalm 

 civ. 26 5 and Job, chapter xli. In the former, Leviathan is an 

 inhabitant of the waters. In Job he is an inhabitant of the 

 waters, and sometimes of the pebbly beach ; and we shall now 

 proceed to shew, that, while the description in Job admirably 

 agrees with the Crocodile of the Nile, the objection urged by Mr 

 Thompson, against allowing that saurian to be signified there, 

 falls to the ground, when we take in all the conditions of the 

 question. 



But indeed, in shewing that the characters of Leviathan, in 

 Job, are those of the Crocodile of the Nile, Mr Thompson has 

 already exhausted the subject ; and we need only to give an out- 

 line of his detailed comparison. The scales of the Leviathan, 

 forming a close and impenetrable barrier, are those of the Cro- 

 codile, which, according to Griffith's Cuvier, " is covered with 

 small bucklers, which are proof against the sword and musket 

 ball." The terrible teeth, the glancing of the eyes, the fume 

 from the nostrils resembling smoke, the might of the neck, the 

 movements occasioning great agitation of the waters, the great 

 strength, and frightful presence of the Leviathan, Mr Thomp- 

 son acknowledges to belong to the Crocodile, and only claims 

 that they may have belonged to the Megalosaurus in a more 

 eminent degree. 



His objection to admitting the Leviathan to be the Crocodile 

 is derived from the admission, in Job, of the impracticability of 



