and brass as rotten wood; who had not his like upon the earth, and was a king amidst the children of pride."*

Over this recondite and bewildering subject sceptics have laughed and critics have puzzled themselves; it is natural history alone that can find us a clue to the labyrinth, that enables us to repose faith in the records of antiquity, and that establishes the important position, that the extravagance of a description is no argument against the truth of a description, and that it is somewhat too much to deny that a thing has existed formerly, for the mere reason that it does not exist now.

* Job, xli. 25. 27. 31. 33, 34.

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