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Santones among the rest there were elephants^® and rams, 
which last, however, had only a white spot to represent horns. 
Turranius has also left accounts of several nereids, and he 
speaks of a monster that was thrown up on the shore at 
Gades, the distance between the two fins at the end of the tail 
of which was sixteen cubits, and its teeth one hundred and 
twenty in number ; the largest being nine, and the smallest 
six inches in length. 
M. Scaurus, in his sedileship, exhibited at Eome, among other 
wonderful things, the bones of the monster to which Andro- 
meda was said to have been exposed, and which he had brought 
from Joppa, a city of Judsea. These bones exceeded forty feet 
in length, and the ribs were higher than those of the Indian 
elephant, while the back-bone was a foot and a half in thick- 
ness. 
See B. iv, c. 33. 
23 Dalechamps says that this elephant is the same as the ^'rosmarus " of 
Olaus Magnus, B. xxxii. c. 11. It is remarked by Cuvier, that cetaceous 
animals have at all times received the names of those belonging to the land. 
The sea-ram, he thinks, may have been the great dolphin, which is called 
the bootskopf," and which has above the eye a white spot, curved in nearly 
a similar manner to the horn of a ram. The " elephant," again, he suggests, 
may have been the Trichechus rosmarus of Linnseus, or the morse, which 
has large tusks projecting from its mouth, similar to those of the elephant. 
This animal, however, as he says, is confined to the northern seas, and does 
not appear ever to have come so far south as our coasts. Juba and Pau- 
sanias, however, speak of these horns of the sea-ram as being really teeth 
or tusks, 
29 J udging from the account of it here given, and especially in relation 
to the teeth, Cuvier is inclined to think that the cachelot whale, the Phy- 
seter macrocephalus of Linnaeus, is the animal here alluded to. 
30 Solinus, generally a faithful mimic of Pliny, makes the measure only 
half a foot. Cuvier says that there can be little doubt that the bones re- 
presented to have been those of the monster to which Andromeda was ex- 
posed, were the bones, and more especially the lower jaws, of the whale. 
Ajasson certainly appears to have mistaken the sense of this passage. He 
says that it must not be supposed that Pliny means the identical bones of 
the animal which was about to devour Andromeda, but of one of the ani- 
mals of that kind ; and he exercises his wit at the expense of those who 
would construe the passage differently, in saying that these bones ought to 
have been sent to those who show in their collections such articles as the 
knife with which Cain slew Abel. Now, there can be no doubt that these 
bones were not those of the monster which the poets tell us was about to 
devour Andromeda ; but the Romans certainly supposed that they were, 
and Pliny evidently thought so too, for in B. v. c. 14, he speaks of the 
chains by which she was fastened to the rock, at Joppa, as still to be seen 
there. M. ^milius Scaurus, the younger, is here referred to. 
