the elephant and the whale. This is so natural an expectation, that
some commentators have rendered behemoth and leviathan, the elephant
and whale, though the descriptions in our author will not admit of
it; but Moses being, as we may well suppose, under an immediate
terror of the hippopotamus and crocodile, from their daily mischiefs
and ravages around him, it is very accountable why he should permit
them to take place.
44 Though the report was propagated without the least truth, it may be
sufficient ground to justify a poetical fancy's enlarging on it.
45 Lord Aubrey Beauclerk was the eighth son of the Duke of St. Albans,
who was one of the sons of King Charles the Second. He was born in
the year 1711; and, being regularly bred to the sea service, in 1731
he was appointed to the command of his majesty's ship the Ludlow
Castle; and he commanded the Prince Frederick at the attack of the
harbour of Carthagena, March 24, 1741.
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