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Excerpt from Address Delivered in the Ipswich Museum, on 9th March, 1848
But scientific information has its bearings, even on the occupations of the profound critic and learned divine. To Naturalists, especially, such persons might often appeal with advantage, whenever an nu certain word occurs in an ancient author, denoting some animal, vegetable, or mineral, with little intimation of what may be the object intended, further than its belonging to a particular count and pos sessing some striking quality or peculiarity. Those trans ators of the Bible who worked so nobly for us, were comparatively ignorant of natural history; and, consequently, there are strange uncertainties and even ludicrous mistakes in the names they have given to some of the natural productions alluded to by the sacred authors. Although it would be impossible, in all cases, to set them right yet it would be some improvement on their mistakes, not to admit one animal, said to be possessed of legs, to have meant a whale, and not to allow another, unknown in J udea, to be an inhabitant of that country, Their Leviathan and their Behemoth would be more readily recognised under the familiar appellations of Crocodile and Hippopotamus, animals whose habits have now been rendered sufficiently familiar to us by the accounts of modern travellers.
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