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afterwards : So that the time I defign’d to have bedew’d in Dif- 
fering the Parts I had referv’d, was taken up in excarnating, 
boyling, and taking care of the Bones j which, had not fomePhy- 
litians and Surgeons gone out and affiited me on the Monday had 
been all carried off* and the heat of the Weather was fuch that 
the other Parts would not keep. This, I hope, will be a fufficient 
excufe for the Lamenefs of the following Account. 
Becaufe the Names given to the Elephant in Holy Scripture have d 
been much miftaken, tho' perhaps it may feem forreign to my ,1^0^ 
Bufinefs, yet I hope ’twill not be unpleafing, if from Authors 
I endeavour to clear them. Junius and Tremelhus , Franz.hu, &c. Elephant, 
who comment upon the 40 thlh. of Job v. 1?. and downward, take " 
the Behemoth for the Elephant j but others, fuch as the Learned 
Bochart , Par. 2. lib . 4. c. 15. and from him Dr. Patrick, arc of 
Opinion, ’tis not the Elephant which is meant there, but the 
Hippopotamos , or River Horle ; for Buxtorf and fuch others as are 
acquainted with the Original, agree, that the Word Behemoth 
does not properly fignify any thing more than a great Bead; and 
both in Job and Efdras , 6 Ch. v. 49. (where the Behemoth is tran- 
flated Enoch in the Englifh Eible) the Behemoth and Leviathan are 
nam’d together. Efdras makes them the Work of the Fifth Day, 
vyherein Fifhc-, other Sea Animals, and Sea Fowls were created; 
by which not the Elephant , but the Hippopotamos may be meant, 
which Bochart proves by the following Arguments. 1. As i njib 
39. Land Animals, fuch as Quadrupeds and Fowls, are fpoken of- 
fo in the 40 and 41. Behemoth and Leviathan , as belonging more 
properly to the Water, are treated of. 2. The Force of the Be- 
hemoth is laid to be in the Navel of his Belly, whereas ’tis the 
lofted part of the Elephant ; but in the Hippopotamos it is. fo thick 
and impenetrable, that it refills both Spears and Darts, which 
he abundantly proves from Authors. 5. The Behemoth is faid to 
move his Jail like a Cedar ; now the Tail of an Elephant is long 
like that of an Ox , and but fmall in proportion to the Body ; 
and to move like a Cedar , would import fomc llrong round fub~ 
dance, and rather feems to agree with what tctlonius affirms of 
the Hippopotamos , that Catidam habet brevem, crajfam & rot and am , 
fho’ Bochart renders it Re-tor quet, & non arrigit Caudam , as Junius 
has it. 4. Bochart fays, that the Word in the Original will not 
imply Nervis Tefiium iff as, as Junius has it, but Nervis Femorum 
&c. Not the Sinews of his Stones, but the Nerves of his Thighs 
ace intricate. 5. The Elephant feldom lies down, and never in 
