renes. at midnight when the Cock was kill'd. But to leave Fables: 'Tis certain that Effect is infallible, and that holding a Coal to the lower Part of a running HourGlafs, not only ftops it immediately for that time, but if often re as if 'em Syrians, as before, but rather for their fordid Tempers, and refufing to receive his Gofpel. Nor is'ta Wonder he fhould work Mi racles among fuch a Mungril People, fince he did fo both among the Samaritans and Syro-Phenicians, no more Jews than thefe Gada-peated, as we did, spoils it for ever This Reafon appears to after; making it run us more fair and probable than it had the Stone (as well as Sand) that of a very great Man, though by Fits and Tricks, but never for his Opinion may be guets'd at in a whole Minute together. other things by his Judgment here, who fays upon the Place, "That God was not unjuft to make use of fuch Creatures as he had made, to promote his own Glory, tho' "by their Destruction. This would hardly hold, even of Swine, (fince God laves both Man and Beaft), unless joyn'd with the benent of Man, for whofe fake they were made; much lefs, we conceive, of that Man who is Lord of the Creation, and fhall never be deftroyed, unless he himself chufes, and confequently caufes, his own ruine. Q. Hold a live Coal to an HourGlafs which is running, and it immediately ftops: Pray, the Reason? This for the Fact, which we with we had believ'd without trying it. Now for the Reason, which we can but guess at, and will thank those that do better. We are apt to believe that the Coal held too near the Sand, overdrys, and as it were Bakes, or crusts it together, and thereby hinders its Paffage: Our Reafonis because we have feen a Quantity of Sand, which having accidently lain for fome time near the Fire, has been thereby hardened into a Subftance, not much yeilding to the foft Sand-ftone which is found in many Countries. Not but that here's a difficulty still remaining: If the moving the Fire near the 4. Fift of all, we warn allour Glass should be supposed to Opekind Querifts how they make rate on that fmall Portion of Sand the Experiment, because it has which was just running through very dangerous and fatal Con- the Orifice, yet how can it be fequences to a poor Hour-Glais, fuppofed to affect the Whole, as which we our felves can speak by in the Inftance of the Athenianlad Experience, for fome time Hour-Glafs (what d'ye grin for? fince, making the Experiment our We may have Watches too, for 1elves (which fure was first in- ought you know.) We aniwer, vented by iome pernicious Hou-This may be effected by the reglass-makerit fo effectually peated Operations, which it's protopt the Sand, that 'twould ne-bable rendered the whole Body of ver run fince, and the ATHENIAN HOUR-GLASS was utterly ruined, which 'tis well if iomie Wag don't fay, has made us write Without Fear or Wat ever fince, as the old Womans Maidens role the Sand more close_and_gritty than it was before; tince the rarifying the Air, fhould rather, one would think, make it run faster, that Scale of a pair of exactly Ballanc'd ballanc'd Gold Weights, will fink, Scripture, what can you defire under which you hold a live Coal, plainer than that they produce, because the Air is thinner there Fob 40. "his. itrength is iu his than under the other. Nor had" Loyns, and his Force in the the Fire, that we could perceive," Navel of his Belly: And there's any Operation on the Soder, fo as enough for Behemoth; nor do to diforder or melt it, and thereby they make lefs wonderful Work hinder the Paffage. This is all we withLeviathan; who was alfo crecanguefs concerning this weighty ated Male and Female, but, ne mas Affair, and if any have a Mind to faminam faliyet, and leit the whole be better informed, if they'll take World should be defolate by the the Pains but to come to the Dif-prodigious Number of Whales festion of this Hour-Glass (first flying o'er the Mountains Tops) taking care to find where the So-theMale was ferv'd the fame fawce ciety meets) they may there ex-with poor He-Behemoth, and the ceedingly improve their Know- Female killed and pickled up for ledge, and perhaps receive entire Satisfaction in this Matter Q. What Beafts were the Behemoth and Leviathan. the fame great Feaft before mention'd (we can't tell how it may taite when it hath been to long in Salt, but at prefent, the Jews may A. A pair of Swingers, if we'll have a pickled Whale every Day believe the Rabbies, who, as Bux- for Dinner, and yet we believe no torf in his Synagog. Fudaica, Chriftian would envy 'em,) bur Chap. 36. p. 456. tells us, That let's fee how notably they prove Behemoth is a monitrous Bull, this, as well as the other, which which grazes upon a thousand they do beyond Contradiction Hills, and every Day eats up all from, Ifa. 2. 1. [he fhall flay the the Grafs that grows upon 'em, Dragon that is at the Sea, ] which though by good Luck, he reits, they render [he hath flain the at Night, when other wild Beafts Whale, &c. But here a still bigdo feed, and all grows again by ger Miracles, that before this Feait, next Morning, which they ground Behemoth the pickled Leviathan, very rabinically on that Text, and the mighty Bar Fuchne, (a Pfalm 50. 10. All the Beafts of Bird of fuch a competent Bignels the Forest are mine, and the Cat- that one of his Eggs by Chance tle (in the Orig. Behemoth) upon falling out of his Neft, beat down a thousand Hills. And in Babba 300 tall Cedars, and when 'twas bafra, they tells us, That this hu- broke, over-flow'd 6 Villages, geous Bull was at firft indeed and who is to make the third Difh created Male and Female, but leaft at this Feast) these three are to they should multiply and destroy fight together before they are kill'd all the Earth, what did their Ma-(one killing is not enough for Leker but for the Male, inteftabi-viathan,) to make Sport for the lem reddidit; for the Female he ittuck her with Barrennels, and relerves her for a Feaft to the pious Fews in the other World, and if you'd have this prov'd from Gueft. But enough in Reafon of this, though if any don't think fo, they are welcome to more on't in the Talmud, or Buxtorf's Quotations out of that and other few the Crocodile than the Whale; fo the very Learned Mr. Bochart has as good as demonstrated, that the Behemoth is the Hippopotamus, the Sea-Horfe, River-Horfe, or Morfe. For by fo many_Names, at leaft, is that vaft Creature if Authors, only we fhall take | Commentators have left the receinotice that there's a Paffage in the ved Opinion concerning LeviaSecond Book of Efdras, which ei-than, whom they rather believe ther gave occafion to thefe Fables, or perhaps contains the very first Account of 'em. 'Tis in the 6th Chapter, from 49. to 52. Then (on the fifth Day ) didft thou or dain two living Creatures, the one thou calledft Behemoth (that's the truer Reading), the other Le-known; and what he affirms he viathan, and didft feparate the proves, as he does all things elfe, one from the other, for the feventh with fuch variety of Reading, and Part, namely, where the Water excellent Critical Learning, that was gathered together, might not we believe there are few Learned bold them. Unto Behemoth thou Men, but what are now converted gaveft one Part, which was dried to his Opinion, particularly Luup the third Day, that he should dolphus, in his History of Éthisdwell in the fame Part, wherein pia, who tells us there, p. 71. of are a thousand Hills. But unto his English Tranflation, That this Leviathan thou gavest the feventh is that Beaft which Job deferibes Part, namely, the moist, and haft by the Name of Behemoth, and kept him to be devoured, of whom that his Defcription agrees with thou wilt, and when. the Hippopotamus, which is very common in those Countries, whence the Nile takes itsRife, as well as in all the Stream of that vaft River. Which Beast he tells us, is called in the EthiopickLanguage, Bibat; in the Amharic, Gomari; for fo we are to correct Bochart, (who in his Hierez. lib. 5. cap. 15. p. 769. writes them Bicht, and Gomar) as we suppose Ludolphus, his Translator, tells us in the Margent. So much for Talmud and Apocrypha. To come to more modern and authentick Authors. The Behemoth has been generally thought to be the Elephant (as 'tis rendered here in the Margent of many Bibles) and that because feveral parts of hisDefcription feems to agree to that vaft Creature. [1.] V. 15. His eating Grafs like an Ox. [2.] His great Strength and Excellency above others, v. 16. to 19. [3.] His delighting in Woods, and Shades, and Waters, v. 21, 19. as Ludolphus and others affures us he does. Then Interpre-compare Job's Defcription with ters generally taking Leviathan this Hippopotamus, wherein we for the Whale, the biggest Crea- find, 1. That leveral parts of it ture in the Sea, they were eafily does not agree with the Elephant. led to conclude Behemoth was the 2. That all agree exactly to the Elephant, who has been generally Hippopotamus, even those few thought the biggest at Land. But which are already mentioned of the notwithstanding thefe Probabili-Elephant, as well as many others. ties, as Beza, Dodate, and other See Fob 40. 15. and onward. But that we may bring fomething more thanAuthority for this Opinion, 'twill be neceffary to The that and himself, and a great many more together. Nor does that part of the Description any better agree to the Elephant, v 19. "He that made him, can make "his Sword to approach unto him; rather as Bochart, applicavit et Harpen ejus, gave him his Faulchion, or crooked Sword, which can't be the Elephants Trunk and his Teeth are harmeless. The next is as improper,v 21. He lies in the Covert of the Reeds and Fens. But the Elephant tramples Trees high enough to afford him Covert; Which fo perplexed Kimchi and The first thing which feems not fo well to agree with the Elephant,is in v. 15. Which I made with thee; which Bockart thinks ought rather to be rendered (juxta te ) near thee, or close by thee; to wit, in the Nile, near Arabia. Which Criticifim he confirms from feveralothers Texts,where which is here tranflated [with thee] does plainly fignifie [near thee] or Tin tby Neighbourhood] particularly in the 17th of this very Book of Job, and the 3d. But he might have proved it ftill more evident-like Corn; and what Reeds are ly from the Seventy, in this very Text, which we wonder fo curious an Interpeter fhould over-others, who thought the Elephant look, who tranflate it exactly as this Behemoth, but yet knew this he has done, by wae se, prope, fo difagreeable to his Character, or juxta te. Now there are no that as Bochart (ubi fup.) they Elephants of the natural Product tranflate it by an Interrogative, either of Egypt or Arabia, but An fub umbrofis cubat, &c. equiplenty of the Hippopotamus in valent to a Negative in the Sacred former Ages, though now retired Language; though, as he well obfurther up towards the Head of ferves, if fuch a Liberty be granNile, as Bochart from Themi-ted to interpret a plain Affirmaftius and Marcellinus. Nay, his fecond Character, That he Eats Grass as an Ox, may not be fo proper to the Elephant, whole Chief Food, as Ludolphus tells us is the Branches of Trees, Shrubs, and the like. But the following Character, That his Force is in the Navel of his Belly, will by no means agree to the Elephant, fince all Writers agree, That his Belly is foft, and easily penetrable, whence the Rhinoceros, and his other E-more probable, is, the Reed in nemies, principally aim at it in the former Verfe, rendered a their Encounters with him, and waugov, by the Seventy, the Pathere's a fortofan Infect that eats per Reed being almoft folely prointo his very Navel, and mightily per to Nile; where, as before, we torments him; and Eleazer in the hear of no Elephants. To proMaccabes ran his fpear into the ceed to v. 23. which the so often Elephants Belly. Ben Gorion mentioned learned Man thus tran Lay's, his Navil, when he killed lates, differing from our, Be 1 tive by a Negative (like ftatuimus by Abrogamus) what Certainty will there be left in the Sacred Writings? Again, what we render, the Willows of the Brook, v. 22. Bochart tranilates, the Willows of Nile,, and it's certain that the Heb. Naebal, or Nakal, is often taken for the Nile in Scripture; and the very word used in Fonathan, and the Ferufal. Targ and that which makes this feem hold hold a River preffeth him, and he will not tremble; he will be fecure, although Jordan fhould break forth against his mouth the other Reading making in his Opinion, too vait an Hyperbole, and is contrary to the Grammar of the Heb. Befides, that the Elephant is immediately drowned, if the Water be above the Trunk. This for the Elephant. Now let us fee whether all thefe Characters agree any better to the River-Horfe, and that we fhall find they do exactly, as well as all the reft there mentioned. ly,) which agrees well enough to the Hippopotamus, who is arm'd with impenetrable fcales all over. (4. moved his Tail like a Cedar,) rather he bends it, the word fignifiying Curvare, or retorquere, as Swine do theirs, to which this of the Hippopotamus is not unlike, which therefore must be longer than the Elephants, though neither of 'em have so much as to boast of it. However, the Tail of the Hippopotamus may be compar'd to a Cedar well enough for its ftrength, fmoothnefs, firmness, and roundnefs, tho' not its length, nor is't neceffary this fimilitude fhou'd run of all four, any more be One of the greateft difficulties is about the word, Behemoth, which feems to include only Land Ani-than any other; as for the other mals. But befides that of Efdras before, where this is reckon'd among the Productions of the water, on the fifth day; befides this 'tis certain that Amphibious Creatures, as the Sea-Horfe, are call'd by good Authors Terreftrial, as well as Aquatick. Thus Pliny of the Crocodile, its Brother Monster unum hoe Animal Tereftre, &c. Nor is he alone, for the Greeks call 'em both together, Steia, as Diodorus, and the Latins, Beftia, and Bellua. Of his first Chara&ter, whom I made with thee, we have difcours'd already, (2. Who eats grafs as an Ox) If this were true of the Elephants, 'twould be fcarce remarkable, but 'tis a Memorable property of this vaft Amphibious Animal, and has been taken notice of by Diodorus and others, he feeds, fay he, on Corn, and Hay; befides, he's not unlike an Ox in his Bulk and Form, whence the Italians call him Bomarin, or Sea-Ox, as we our Seals, much the fame, Sea Calfs. (3 His force is in the Navelof his Be part of the verfe 'tis also at least as which World |