Chap. 40. An Expofition tapon the Bookof ,]`o B. Verf.a1. 645 by verygreat trees, as weby (landing corn ,and that fome of them they are taller tbantrees.Which I conceive,can be underfhood no Dìllata.l.7.c,6: other way than by a,high flrain of Rhetorick : But fuppofe itttrue in plainand proper fenfe, yet this gives the learned Bochartru no advantage (towhich end he alleadgeth that of c/Elian)for the ac- commodating of this part of the defcriptionof 'Behemoth to the Hippopotame rather than theElephant, becaufe he tells us from feveralAuthors,firfl,that the Hippopotame is not only three times Roche., bigger than the horfe, but fecondly, that he is of equal ability parr. pó/ler, with the Elephant, and for the moil part greater. Whence it is 1.5. fits, ( faith he ) that fome Writers compare the Hippopotame with the p.755... Elephant, both in flrength and fiature, or prefer him before the Elephant;which reports(faith he)although they be a little flrecchr, yet 'cis manifefl, that the Hippopotame comes behind few ani- mals, either in bignefa or (+azure ( that is, talinefs ) of body. And if fo, then the Reeds of the Fen fit him as ill for a covert as the Elephant ; yet I am enough fatisfied, that theymay very well fit either of them. And though the Elephant ufuallyflcepeth f}anding,and rarely lyeth down to fleep,yet(which is not denied) he if fometimes or at any time lyeth down to fleep, 'tis fufficient to anfwer thepurpofe of this Text ; which faith (verf. za.) He lyetb under the fhady trees, in the covert of the Reeds and Fens. And Verf. 22. The ad trees cover him with their /hadew, the willows of the kraal( compas him about,.. 'Tis tfual with, and even natural to cartel of all forts, to Peek Sicut aquas filcher under fhady trees, when the fiery heat of the Sun offends gl;uptsrg- them ; and as Behemoth Peeks out any fort of fhady trees, fo it flaneæ, etanon fecros he path a peculiar delight in, and pofliibly a phancy to nits inaquas fr'a pros, eniunt fa- 7'hewillows of the brook. lices,alni, papa Willows are fo called , becaufe they mofily grow near ii. Pain. to brooks, and always profper bet+ in marifh or mooriih- a Y Etephhs amat grounds. Some trees will not grow in watery places, fuck amner air are the Cyprefs and Chefl- nut-trees ; others will not grow quamv. lu- well any where elfe, filch are the Aldar and-the Poplar trees, viatile n®a fit Willows efpecially : Willows love brooks, and Elephants love tamer, ripari- both brooks and Willows if thofe ancient Natural Hit +orians "mtc1 porn(}: 9 Agitl.l,9.e.a6m- mentio
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