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wings. Also, he made a ship with all the tackling 
to it, no bigger than a bee might hide it with her 
wings.” 
The eighth hook discusses land animals ; con- 
taining notices, or rather anecdotes, of elephants, dra- 
gons, lions, panthers, tigers, cameleopards, unicorns, 
wolres, hysenas, ounces, crocodiles, the river-horse, 
the rhinoceros, deer, horses, apes, mules, oxen, sheep, 
goats, swine, hares, rabbits, apes, monkeys, serpents, 
lizards, squirrels, urchins, badgers, rats, and mice. 
Many wonderful stories are told of the elephant, the 
lion, the wolf, &c. and the combats of these ferocious 
animals which the emperors, consuls, and generals, 
exhibited at Rome for the amusement of the people ; 
but the scientific reader will look in vain for any 
tiling like classification or methodical arrangement, 
(that indeed was not Pliny’s object,) except tliat lie 
has begun with the largest, and ends with the small- 
er genera. Of elephants, lions, and wolves, some cu- 
rious particulars are related. The following is a short 
extract from the chapter on “ Dogges.” “ Among 
those dumesticall creatures that conuerse with vs, 
there be many things worth the knowledge, and 
namely, as touching dogges, the most faithfull and 
trustye companions of all others to man. And in 
verie tnith, I have heard it credibly reported of a 
dogge that, in defence of his master, fought hard 
against theeues robbing by the highway side; and al- 
beit he was sorre wounded, even to death, yet would 
he not abandon the dead body of his master, but 
