the names of Leviathan and Behemoth. 281 



pliant, of the figure of a bull, of great strength and swiftness, 

 so fierce that it spared neither man nor beast on whom it once 

 cast his eyes, untameable even when taken young, and which 

 the resolute German tribes had no means of overcoming, but by 

 capturing it in pitfalls ; an art deemed so laudable by them, 

 that they bestowed public honours on those who excelled in it. 

 There are obviously fabulous circumstances in the descriptions 

 of some other animals which Julius Caesar has transmitted to us, 

 as he himself had not seen them, but had taken the accounts 

 others gave of them; but nothing appears fabulous in his ac- 

 count of the Urus, — on the contrary, the former existence of 

 such a large animal, of the Bovine race, is demonstrated by 

 their being frequently found in England, as well as on the 

 Continent, in peat-mosses, drained lakes and marshes, and the 

 most superficial strata, remarkable skulls of that race, having 

 peculiar specific characters, and about one-third larger than the 

 skulls of domesticated oxen. Cuvier has shewn that these are 

 remains of the Urus of Julius Caesar, whose existence, in a live 

 state, he has traced to a much later era than his. 



The Urus may anciently have existed in many countries be- 

 sides those in which we have an account of its being an inhabi- 

 tant. We have no evidence that, like the Indian buffaloes, it 

 sometimes betook itself to the marshes and rivers ; but had 

 we that, in addition to its other characters, then it would cor- 

 respond in all points with the Behemoth in Job. 



2d July 1835. 



On the Falls of 'Niagara, and the Reasonings of some Authors 

 respecting them. By Henry D. Rogers, F. G. S. of Lon- 

 don, &c. 



The magnitude of this noted cataract, the circumstance of its 

 being the outlet for the waters of an immense surface, and the 

 evidences of its retrograde movement towards Lake Erie, have 

 made it a subject of much interest and speculation among geo- 

 logists. Theories have been framed to explain its origin, and 

 data collected to compute the term of its existence, which, if not 



