. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . those ofthe Chcerophylhim. It works with great rapidityand unwearied perseverance; and on the appearanceof an enemy digs a perpendicular shaft with extra-ordinary rapidity. Though unable to see, its hear-ing and sense of smell supply the deficiency, andgive it warning of the approach of danger; andwhen surprised, it will lift up its head, snort, andgnash its teeth, and endeavou
. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . those ofthe Chcerophylhim. It works with great rapidityand unwearied perseverance; and on the appearanceof an enemy digs a perpendicular shaft with extra-ordinary rapidity. Though unable to see, its hear-ing and sense of smell supply the deficiency, andgive it warning of the approach of danger; andwhen surprised, it will lift up its head, snort, andgnash its teeth, and endeavour to seize its bite is very severe. In the morning it often quitsits burrow, and basks with its mate in the is a superstition among the people along thebanks of the Ukraine, that the hand of a person,in the grasp of which one of these animals has beensuffocated, is capable of curing scrofulous diseases. The general colour of the spalax is ashy grey, thefur being dusky at the roots. A white line extendsalong the lateral ridge of the head, from the nose tothe ears. The spalax measures eight or nine inchesin length. THE LION. 15 THE LION. Order.—Carnivora, or Flesh-eating What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?—Judges xiv. 18. A lion which is strongest among beasts, And turneth not away from any.—Prov. xxx. 30. Judah is a lions whelp : From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion. And as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?—Gen. xlix. 9. Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, And lift up himself as a young- lion: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain.—Numbers xxiii. 24. Such are some of the expressions in which the Holy-Scriptures describe the power and majesty of the figurative language of the Bible, in its allusionsto this animal, is easily understood. We read that the kings wrath is as the roaring of a lion, P
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