Part I. Of Quadrupdes. 1 5 
of a foot long 3 as is evident in the Skull here preferved 3 
and other particulars mention d by Columna in his copious 
Defcription hereof. 
The great prominency of the Os Jugule is alfo obfer- 
vable 3 as being thereby fitted for the reception of marve- 
lous great and ftrong Mufcules for the drawing of his 
Chaps together. 
Rings made of his Teeth, are believed to be very ef- 
fectual againft the Cramp, (a) Thofe that fell Artificial O) charl 
Teeth, ufually make them of the long Teeth of this Am- 0n ° 0Ci ° 
mal, as being fuppofed the beft for this purpofe. 
His Teeth, , fays Columna, arefo hard, that being {truck 
againft Steel, produce fparks of fire. And thence concludes 
it probable, That this Animal, by ftnking his Teeth one 
againft another, in the night time, might produce the like, 
and fo feem, as it were, to vomit or breath out fire 3 a 
thing attributed to him by the Ancients. But the error of 
this Conjecture is double : Firft in his not conlidering, That 
the fire ( could any be produced by ftnking Steel againft 
thefe Teeth ) would be ftruck not out of the Teeth, but 
out of the Steel. And next, In that, in truth, no fire can 
be produced by either ftnking of thefe Teeth one againft 
another, or againft Steel it felf 3 as I have try 5 d. 
He is found in the Rivers Nile and Bam both 3 (b) as alfo ( fi Fab ; C T 
near the Indian 3 and in Zaire, the great River of Congo, (c) Strabo and 
Several Teeth, both of the upper and nether Jaw of the ^'^ f<Sep _ 
Hipopotamus. Some fo big,that they feem to have belonged tai. c. 29. & 
to a much bigger Skull, than this here. tmfchot. 
A PISLE faid to be that of the H I P P O P O T A M U S< 2 ° 4 ' 
It feems to be only that part of the Pifle which he exerts, 
'Tis in length, above a foot. The Glans even now it is dry, 
above feven Inches about. The other end very {lender. 
The fore-TOOTH of a BEVIR, fo called from 
E I B E R, by a traiifpofition of Letters. 'Tis three Inches 
and half long, with the Root, or that part which is fixed 
in the Chap. Near half Inch broad. A little crooked, 
and diftorted or wnthen. Triangular, the inner Angle 
more obtufe. Its end fharpen d very obliquely, after the 
manner of a Chisel. So that thefe Teeth may properly 
be called DENTES S C A L P R A R 1 1: wherewith 
this Animal, as with fo many ftrong Chizels, pairs off the 
Barques of Trees for his ufe. The-* 
