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Tincture or Reflection. The glorious Sun was first feen in the East, ruling the Day, and invefted all the Horizon round with bright Rays, chearfully feeming to run his Course through the high Courfe of Heaven; the Morning-Star and other Conftellations moving with him, fhedding fweet Influence. The Moon was fet oppofite in the levelled Weft, lefs bright than the Sun, as his Mirror, with full Face, borrowing her Light from him; for in that Afpect the needed no other; and still keeps that Distance till Night; then The fhines in the Eaft, in her Turn, revolving on Heaven's great Axle, and holds her Reign, dividing it with Thousands of leffer Lights, a thousand Thoufand Stars, that then appeared fhining in the Hemifphere, then first adorned with these bright Luminaries, that fet and rofe: And the Evening and the Morning were the fourth Day.

AND GOD faid, Let the Waters bring forth abundantly the moving Creature that hath Life, Reptiles, with Spawn abundant, and let the Fowl fly above the Earth, with Wings in the open Firmament! And Gop created great Whales (f), and every living Creature that moveth, which the Waters brought forth abundantly after their Kind, and every winged Fowl after his Kind: And GoD faw that it was good, and bleffed them, faying, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the Seas, Lakes, and running Streams! and let all Sorts of Fowls of the Air increase alfo. Forthwith the Seas, the Sounds, and every Creek and Bay fwarm with innumerable Fry, and Shoals of Fish, that with their Fins and fhining Scale fwim under the Waves in Multitudes, large enough to make Banks in the

(f) Whales; Sax. O. E. The hugeft Cratures in the Sea, as Elephants are on the Dry Land: They are mentioned in particu. lar, Gen. i. 21. "And God cre

"ated great Whales, and every

living Creature that moveth, which the Waters brought "forth abundantly after their " Kind."

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Ocean: Part fingle, or with Mates, graze upon the Sea-weed, their Pafture; or fporting among Coral fhew their beautiful Scales of various Colours, mixed with Gold, to the Sun; or elfe lying at Eafe in their Pearl Shells, attend moift Nourishment; or under Rocks, covered with Shells like Armour, watch for their Food; the Dolphins (g) and Seales play upon the calm Seas, while other larger Fish wallowing unwieldy, and prodigious in their Motion, make a Tempeft as they iwim; there the LEVIATHAN, hugeft of hiving Creatures, fleeps or fwims on the Sea, ftretched like a Promontory, and feems a moving Land, drawing in and fpouting out a Sea from his Gills. Mean while the warm Caves, and Fens, and Shores hatch their Brood as numerous, from all Kinds of Eggs, that bursting difclofe their callow Young; but being foon feathered and foaring the lofty Air, rife far above the Ground, making a great Noife with their Wings: There the Eagle and the Stork (b) build their Nefts, on Cliffs and the Tops of Cedars; Part loofely flying, and Part more wife, led on by others, and ranged in Order, and knowing the Seafons, fet forth in large Flocks high over Seas and Lands, eafing one another

(g) Dolphins, from Delphi ; Lat. from the Gr. because the People of Delphi firft difcovered this Fish; or Delphax, Gr. i. e. An Hog: because it resembles one in its long Snout, Fatnefs, Ribs, Liver, and Entrails. It is called the Sea-Hog, and the facred Fish; because it was confe. crated to Neptune. A Dolphin is a large Fish, not unlike a Porpoife, very ftraight, and the fwifteft of all Fishes or Birds; as fwiftas an Arrow; it will overtake a Ship in full Sail before the Wind; and continually in Motion. It doth live twenty or thirty Years, and three or four Days out of Water,

as an Eel doth. Dolphins are faid to be Lovers of Men. It is a certain Sign of a Tempest, when they sport on the Water. Their Flesh was of great Re. queft among the Antients. They have no Gall.

(b) Stork ; Sax. Hib. Chah dab, í. e. K.ndness or Natural affection: Because that Bird hath a great Love to its Young; and A For! they to the old ones. bigger than a common Heron, with a white Head, Neck, Belly, Tail and Fore-part; but black in the Back, with broad Claws,, like the Nails of a Man.

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in their Flight; fo the prudent Crane (i) fteers yearly her Voyage, whilft the Air is fanned with numberlefs Wings. The fimalier Birds, flying from Branch to Branch, fung in the Woods till Evening; nor even then did the folemn Nightingale ceafe warbling, but tuned her foft Song all the Night. Others bathed their downy Breafts upon pure and clear Lakes and Rivers; the Swan with her arched Neck mantling proudly between her white Wings, rows herself along in State, her Feet ferving for Oars; yet they often quit the Water, and rifing on the Wing, take their Flight through the Air. Others walked firm upon the Ground, fuch as the crefted Cock, whofe Throat proclaims the Hours of the Night; and the Peacock, whofe gay Train adorns him, tinged with all the Colours of the Rainbow, and having his Tail filled with glittering Eyes like Stars. The Waters thus replenished with Fish, and the Air with Fowl, the Evening and the Morning were the fifth Day.

THE fixth and laft Day of the Creation arose with Evening and Morning Song; when God faid, Let the Earth bring forth the living Creature after his Kind, Cattle,, and creeping Things, and Beafts of the Earth, each in their Kind! the Earth obeyed, and ftrait opening her fruitful Womb, at one Birth brought forth living Creatures without Number, Forms perfectly limbed and full grown, out of the Ground arofe wild Beafts, as from a Den in Forest, Thicket, or Brake, where they had been used to shelter; they rofe in Pairs among the Trees, and the Cat

(i) Crane; Sax. O. E. A Name formed from its Sound. A Bird of Paffage celebrated by the Prophet, for her obferving the fit Time of coming and going from one Country to another, Jer. viii. 7. "Yea, the {4 Stork in the Heaven knoweth

"her appointed Times, and the

"Turtle, and the Crane, and
"the Swallow obferve the Time
"of their coming" It is a
Bird with a very long Bill, Neck
and Legs; fometimes weighing
ten Pounds; and is a Water-
Fowl, reforting in Fens.

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tle walked in the Fields and green Meadows: The wild Beafts few in Number, and folitary; but the tame Cattle sprung up at once, pafturing in Flocks and great Herds. The graffy Clods brought forth, and now the tawny Lion appeared half through the Earth, pawing to get his Hinder-Parts free; then fprings as if broke loofe from Bonds, and rearing up on his hind Legs shakes his flowing Mane: The Leopard and the Tyger rifing like the Mole, threw the crumbled Earth above them like Hillocks: The swift Stag bore up his branching Head from under Ground, and the Behemoth, or Elephant, (the greatest Creature of the Earth, as the Leviathan or Whale is of the Sea) with Difficulty heaped up his vaft Bulk from the Mold: The Flocks rofe Bleeting, and with their Fleeces full grown, and compleat in all their Parts, juft like Plants: Amphibious Creatures, fuch as the Crocodile (k), and all thofe of whom it is uncertain,

(k) Crocodile; Lat. Gr. i. e. Yellow; because it is of a yellow Colour: or because it hateth the Smell or Tafte of Saffron, which is yellow. A huge, voracious and very frong, but timorous Beast, in the Nile, Ganges, &c. living equally upon Land and Water; as our Geefe, Ducks, Otters, &c. Its Jaws are wide enough to swallow a Man whole, full of Teeth. It is the only Beaft that hath no Tongue, fixty Bones or Joints in the Back. The upper Skin is firm, hard and impenetrable with any Dart, Spear or Shot, no not with a loaded Cart; and therefore Scaly is a proper Epithet; but it may be wounded in the Belly. It fwims with the Feet and Fins, which are upon the Tail; but is very flow in its Pace: Because the Feet are fhort.

The Tail is near as long as the whole Body. It lays its Eggs in the Sand or Earth, and brings forth its Young every Year. Its Eggs are as big as a Goofe's, and it lays one every Day for fixty Days. It is thought that they live an hundred Years, and are generally thirty Feet long. In Panama fome of them are an hundred Feet long. An Alligator, is only a young Crocodile. The Old Egyptians worshipped this Beaft, out of Fear; or for the Benefit, which it did to them; For it defended their Country from the Incurfions of the wild Arabs, who durft not pass the Red Sea for fear of thofe voracious Beafts. They made it also a Symbol of Impudence in their Hieroglyphics. They are scarce now in the Nile, and the People of Florida have continual Wars with them.

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whether they owe most of their Original to the Sea or Land. At once came forth Infect and Worm, whatever creeps the Ground; fome of which have Wings, and though their Parts are fo very fmall, they are as compleatly formed, and as exactly put together as thofe of larger Animals, decked in their Summer's Pride, being fpotted with Gold, Purple, and all Manner of Colours, while the Worms drew their long Dimension like a Line, ftreaking the Ground as they paft along: Not all little or inconfiderable Creatures, but fome of the Serpent Kind, of wonderful Length and Bignefs, that befides their Power to creep and roul along the Ground, had Wings to fly with. First crept the induftrious and parfimonious Ant, being provident for the future, having a large Heart inclofed in fmall Room: Next appeared the Female Bee fwarming, that feeds the Drone (1), and builds her Cells of Wax ftored with Honey. The rest are without Number, and thou knowest their Nature, for thou gavest them Names; which makes it needless to repeat them to thee. Nor are Serpents (fome of which are very large, having bright fhining Eyes and terrible Crests) unknown to thee; being (notwithstanding their Appearance, and that they are the fubtleft Beafts of all the Field) unhurtful, and obedient to thy Call,

Now Heaven shined in full Glory, and rolled in her Motions, as the first great Mover's Hands had directed their Courfe. Earth in her rich Attire was finished, and looked lovely; the Air was flown by all Kinds of Fowl; the Water fwum by all Kinds of Fish; the Earth walked by all Kinds of Beafts; and all was full, excepting what remained to be created

(1) Drone; Sax. E. O. A Wap or old Male Bee, without a Sting, who propagates the Species, but cannot gather Honey, for Want of it. Therefore he fits and hatches the Brood,

keeps the Eggs warm, while the Female Bees gather the Honey abroad; and does not ftir from the Brood till they come home fraughted with Honey, and fo difcharge him.

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