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ratione molis, et quia cetus in aquatilibus tantum 
prsestat, quantum in reptilibus prsestant virtute Dra- 
cones.’ (Hierozoic, Lib. I. cap. vi. p. 45.) The 
similitude of shape, which writers urge betwixt the 
whale and the dragon, is what I cannot find out; nor 
can I discover how this author (whom I otherwise 
esteem as one of the most learned men the world 
ever produced) comes to say, in the same place, 
c Balsenam multi volunt ideo dici m3 Serpen- 
tem vectis, (Isaiah xxvii. i.) quod ab uno maris 
extremo ad alterum, vectis instar, attingat. 1 This 
does not at all agree with the whale, which is usually 
but fifty, seventy, or at most eighty feet in length ; 
at least not near so well as with the Sea-Snake. 11 
Here Pontoppidan states that the length of the Sea- 
Serpent is variously estimated by fishermen, and 
others, to be from one hundred to two hundred feet 
in length, and he informs us that some fishermen 
think him six hundred feet long. He thinks that two 
or more of these snakes follow each other in a line, 
as they have been seen to extend to great lengths. 
And then he observes, further, that “ what the word 
of God says, in the place already cited, of the 
leviathan, viz. that it is both a Pole-Serpent and a 
Crooked-Serpent, i. e. he is soon bent in a c!urve, 
and soon stretched again in a straight line, agrees 
perfectly with this Sea-Snake, according to what has 
already been said.” 
But I must go on with the definition. The next mean¬ 
ing given is, “ to roll, Germ, rotten , to wind,” &c. 
I also find, in a more critical lexicon, by Gulielmus 
Gesenius, that this word leviathan is defined in Latin 
as follows : “ (Animal) flexum, in spiras convolutum. 
1. serpens, &c. 2. spec, crocodilus. (Job. xl. 25, 
&c.) 3. quaevis bellua magna aquatilis. (Ps. civ. 26.) 
[This passage I have already given.] Eaque pro 
hoste atroce. (Ps. lxxiv. 13 and 14.)” I insert these 
two verses also. “ Thou didst divide the sea by thy 
