this Animal, as an amphibious one, that lives by Turns upon Land and in the Water. Some will have him to be in the Likeneſs of an Ore white ſpotted, with Horſe Feet. Others make a three Years Colt of him, with a Stag's Head, and a Horn in the Front one Ell long. And others again tell you it is like a Morſe or Sea Horſe, with divided or cloven Feet, and a Horn in the Front. There are Authors, who attribute to him a Horn 10 Foot long, others ſix, and others again but the length of three Inches. See Pliny, Munſterus, Marc. Paulus, Philoſtratus, Heliodorus, and ſeveral others, whoſe Relations are of the ſame Authority with mine, as that of the Greenlanders, concerning a fierce, ravenous wild Beaſt, which they call Amavok; which all pretend to know, but no Perſon ever yet was found, that could ſay, he had ſeen it.
Niſes or Porpoiſes.Niſes or Porpoiſes, otherwiſe Sea Hogs, are alſo placed in the Claſs of Whales, though of a much ſmaller Size, and are