Chap. 4.0. An ExpoRion on the Book of j o B. Verf. I g. 617 affeEting of themmuff bewithout affeaation, though it ought to bewith ffrength of affe&ion. And if we are chief, or have the preheminence aboveothers in the things of this world, it will be well with us ( as to that matter) if we are, where the hand of God, not anyambitious de(ires or praekifes of our own, bath fet us. Itwas the Lord who madeand called Behemoth, The chief of hie ways. Bachartrus conceives this high commendation well becoming theHippopotame. For though ( faith he) he be a pernicious animal, yet there are many things in him, which may move admi ration ; the vaft bulk of his body, his huge ilrengch, his impene- ttablehide, the ilupendous widenefs of his mouth, his prodigi- ous voracity, the whitenefs and hardnefs of his teeth, his living in common in the lea, land, and river, and together with fo great a hardnefs of his skin, a fagacious ingenie, exceeding all irrational animals, as he is reported by e/lmmianus in his a ad-book, of which he there gives two proofs, not omitted by Pliny and Bolinue. Yet if what is written of the Elephant may obtain credit, I much believe that hebears away the bell from the Hippopotame for natural fagacity and ingenuity, as alfa for quantity, and large- nefs of his limbs, and fo of his whole body. And there are many liPiE ad duo- things wherein the Elephant is reported to excel all other beaffs r decimum,allq I (ball give inftance in Twelve, and leave the matterofdifference ad derimum between -him and the Hippopotame, which (hall carry the day for terrium do- chief of the ways of god (which God hirnfelf affirms of Belle- dranremexret- moth) to theReaders vote. Jirareprocedunt. Firii, He is Paid ro excel all beafis in the bulk of his body, or mum quarrum. inbignefs. Hé hath huge limbes, huge bones,and a height cot- Æüan. tr c. menfurable. Natural Htftorians give us there dimen(ions and A Dcdrans is proportions of him. His height (I mean, if fully grown ) is nine inches; reckoned ( according to our meafure ) ten foot and ahalf. Others which being report, that in India there are Elephants of thirteen foot and a half reducedto in height : and whatthe bulk ofphis whole body is, we may col- our meafure, y y t4. ofthem le& by his teeth. The Elephant hath two teeth growing upward make to. foot out of his lower mandible or jaw, of avaff bignefs,and eight foot and a half. in length. Cfar Scaliger faith ( from the report of fome Indian Minus1. s. Hi(lorians ) that two of thole. teeth have weighed three hundred Coefar scat. twenty and five pounds. So big. theyare, that the Indians ufe hereto. 204 Lill 2 them
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