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punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked ser- 
pent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.” Isaiah. 
And what thing soever besides cometh within the chaos of this mon- 
ster’s mouth, be it beast, boat, or stone, down it goes all incontinently that 
great swallow of his, and perish eth in the bottomless gulf of his paunch.” 
Holland’s Plutarch's Morals. 
“The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are : 
among which the Whales and Whirlpools called Balaene, take up as much 
in length as four acres or arpens of land.” Holland’s Pliny. 
“Scarcely had we proceeded two days on the sea, when about sunrise a 
great many Whales and other monsters of the sea, appeared. Among the 
former, one was of a most monstrous size. . . . This came towards us, 
open-mouthed, raising the waves on all sides, and beating the sea before 
him into a foam.” 
Tooke’s Lucian, “The True History .” 
“He visited this country also with a view of catching horsewhales, which 
had bones of very great value for their teeth, of which he brought some to 
the king. . . . The best whales were catched in his own country, of which 
some were forty-eight, some fifty yards long. He said that he was one of 
six who had killed sixty in two days.” 
Other or Octher’s verbal narrative taken down 
from his mouth by King Alfred , a.d. 890. 
“And whereas all the other things, whether beast or vessel, that enter 
into the dreadful gulf of this monster’s (whale’s) mouth, are immediately 
lost and swallowed up, the sea-gudgeon retires into it in great security, and 
there sleeps.” Montaigne, Apology for Raimond Sebond. 
“Let us fly, let us fly ! Old Hick take me if it is not Leviathan described 
by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.” Rabelais. 
“This whale’s liver was two cart-loads.” Stowe’s Annals. 
“The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like a boiling pan.” 
Lord Bacon’s : Version of the Psalms. 
Touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or ork we have received 
