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of the Sea- Cow river, were the beds where thefe enormous 
animals had been playing and rolling, on venturing forth from 
their watery abodes. The defcription that the author of the 
Book of Job has put into the mouth of the Almighty, of the 
behemoth, is poetic, grand, and figurative ; and it is more than 
probable that the hippopotamus was the animal alluded to : — ■ 
" Behold now behemoth which I made with thee j he eateth 
" grafs as an ox : His bones are as ftrong pieces of brafs ; 
" his bones are like bars of iron : He lieth under the ihady 
" trees, in the covert of the reed and fens. The fhady trees 
" cover him with their fhadow ; the willows of the brook 
" compafs him about. Behold he drinketh up a river ; he 
" trufteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. He 
" taketh it with his eyes ; his nofe pierceth through fnares." 
In the rocky mountains of the long pafs, that brought us to 
the river, were great numbers of klip-fpringers and reeboks, 
and of a fpecies of monkey of a grizzled greenifh tint, with a 
ftraight tail, a third longer than the body, and black at the 
extremity ; a horizontal white line acrofs the forehead, juft 
above the eyes ; cheeks bearded with whitifli hair. But the 
grandeft objedt that occurred in the kloof v/as a plant of the 
lilliaceous tribe, with undulate enfiform leaves ; the flower-ftalk 
was fix feet high, and an inch in diameter, fupporting an 
umbel that confifted of twenty to thirty flowrets ; the petals 
on the outfide, ftriped with- red and white, were vdthin of a 
clear fnowy whitenefs j the antherse were bright crirafon. 
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