MAKE A MEME View Large Image Curious creatures in zoology (15569438472).jpg 226 <br> CURIOUS CREATURES <br> And scarce could live a Twelve month to an end <br> But for the little Musculus his friend <br> A little Fish that swimming still before <br> Directs him safe ...
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Keywords: Curious creatures in zoology (15569438472).jpg 226 <br> CURIOUS CREATURES <br> And scarce could live a Twelve month to an end <br> But for the little Musculus his friend <br> A little Fish that swimming still before <br> Directs him safe from Rock from shelf and shoar <br> But we have only spoken of a very few varieties of <br> Whales ; some yet remain which may be styled fancy <br> Whales At all events they are lost to our times Herodo- <br> tus tells us that in the <br> Borysthenes Dneiper <br> were large whales <br> without any spinal <br> bones which they <br> call Antacaei fit for <br> salting Then <br> Gesner gives us varie- <br> ties of Whales of <br> which we know no- <br> thing There is the <br> bearded and maned <br> creature with a face <br> somewhat resem- <br> bling that of a human <br> being found only in <br> the remotest North <br> ~ and there is the hairy <br> whale Cetum Capillatunt vl Crinitum or Germanice <br> Haarwal but no particulars of this curious creature <br> are given <br> He presents us with the image of a Cetacean which <br> he calls an Indian Serpent but he evidently is so <br> doubtful of the creature's authenticity that he tells us <br> that Hieronimus Cardanus sent it formerly to him He <br> cannot quite make it out with its monkey's head and 23574981 76213 32031 Page 226 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/23574981 1890 10 5962/bhl title 32031 Ashton John NameFound Borysthenes NameConfirmed Borysthenes EOLID 30243 NameBankID 4092803 NameFound Cardanus NameConfirmed Cardanus EOLID 4327776 NameBankID 4103663 NameFound Crinitum NameFound Hieronimus NameFound Musculus NameConfirmed Musculus EOLID 51713 NameBankID 113092 Biodiversity Heritage Library Leviathans Curious creatures in zoology; with 130 illus throughout the text Monsters Are Real Animals University of California Libraries archive org bhl page 23574981 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/23574981 bhlMonstersRreal Halloween leviathan university of california libraries archive org bhlmonstersrreal Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-10-19 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/15569438472 2015-08-25 20 56 18 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 leviathan Curious creatures in zoology Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script
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