World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1903-08-06
WHO Is LEVlATHAN2

Bro. Perkins fian SAld 10 Ne tnAl
it is a great boast belonging TO the
Nile in Egypt called ''Hippopota-
mug and at times it will come ont
OF the water and tromp into the
earth crops and every thing else
before it--Confirminc this state
mont by stating that II have seen
tho animal and have seen him
drink. and il would make one
think he could drink up the Jordon.
l have laid MY hand upon him
and he folt to my hand like q
smooth log Of wood, or stone
For little whilc ! thought on
this statement with Crest Pride
having the confidence in Bro. Per.
kins that have in his ability OF
giving us tho truth as We deemed
no had--While my mind WAS
drinking in the Rehabilitation"
having books laying upon my
desk, mine eyes rested upon one
10 me Of great PRISE az for as lts
testimonies go.
In q moment the thought WAS
what did the great man Hugh
| Miller says about this animal. !
was soon scanning the mighty
ocean Of light that decks the
pages OF his liis-work, then read;
I'm the Middle or Niocene Tertiary,
pachydcrms, though o. wholly differ
ent type IRON their predecessors. w
flnd this testimony The Dinotherinm
ono OF Tie greatest quadrnpedAl man
mails tba. over lived. seeris 10 have
| formed connecting link Ia This middle
pge between the Pachydermata and TIN
| Cetacea, zach ramus Of the under Jaw
which i'll the larger specimens are iully
fonr fcet 10 ,cnsth, bore At the sy mphy-
sis great bent tusk turned downwArds
which appears TO have been employed
~ a pickaxe in uproOting the aquatic
plants and liisceous roots on which III,
crehture seems 70 have lived. Tho heaJ
which measured about three feet 4
cross,--a breadth. sufficient, surely, 4
satisfy the demands Of tbs most exact
Ing phfenologist, Was provided wit
muscles Of enormous strength, arrange
so as 10 give potent effect 10 tho oper,
tons of this strange tool The hinde
part OF the skull not little resemble
that Of the Cetacem; while. from lh
form OF the nasal bones. the creatur
WAS evidently furnished with & trun
like the elephant,
II seems not improrahle, Therefore
tha. this bulkiest of mAmmalifero I
auaarupeds constituted, as | have salt
d sort Of uniting lie between creature
still associated IN tho human mind. fro
1.-The circumstances OF their massive pr
: portions, ~ the greatest that swim II
, sea or walk the land, 1.-The whale al
!. 1.-THE elephant. The Mastodon, an el
phantoid animal, also furnished. like II
elephant with tusks and trunk, b
marked by certain peculiari,es Whit
constitute tia different genus seems
y Europe 10 have been contemrora ~ wi
r the Dinotheriam: but IN North Anne
I. ca tthe scene Of its greatest numerit
/ dcyclopmenty Il appears 70 hclone e
later age. In height il did not surpa
|. the African elephant, but Il consider
h bly, exceeded u in lcngsh.--a spccim
which could not have stood above twel
a foe, high indicating \ length Of abe
h twenty flya feet; !, hsd what the q
q plants want. --tusks txcd in its Low
law, which .the males retained throu
. life, but the females lost when young;
: limbs were proportionally shorter,
!. more massive, and its abdomen tu'
elongated and slim i,s grinder teeth I
some OF which have been known
NJ weigh from seventeen " twenty poul
y aud ,hcit cusps elevated into great m,
i. n 8 E. s. T. i