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deduce the power of the Creator from the description of an 
animal never created at all, but the product of the man's 
own imagination ! 
I turn to the description itself, and find as exact a portrait 
as we can imagine of the Bleplias primi genius, prefacing this 
for the sake of illustration by a sketch of the skeleton. 
“ Behold now Behemoth, which I made with thee,” part of 
the same creation, and of course contemporaneous, an her- 
bivorous animal, but the chief of the ways of God. “ Lo now 
his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his 
belly." Could any charactei’istic be more true of an elephant ? 
Skeleton from 16 to 18 feet in height ; tusks from 12 to 13 feet in length. 
The Belgian specimen in the British Museum has a much longer tail. 
“He moveth (or setteth up) his tail like a cedar," — true 
apparently of the mammoth. “ The sinews of his thighs are 
wrapped together." “ His bones are as strong pieces of 
brass, his bones are like bars of iron " (look at the skeleton — 
what muscles these apophyses must have been designed to 
support). He is chief of the ways of God. Ho that made 
him has endowed him with his weapons of offence,* “ mrvid 
* inn tsty Sec Ges. Lc.x. in loco. 
