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A90365	Pelagos. Nec inter vivos, nec inter mortuos, neither amongst the living, nor amongst the dead. Or, An improvement of the sea, upon the nine nautical verses in the 107. Psalm; wherein is handled I. The several, great, and many hazzards, that mariners do meet withall, in stormy and tempestuous seas. II. Their many, several, miraculous, and stupendious deliverances out of all their helpless, and shiftless distressess [sic]. III. A very full, and delightful description of all those many various, and multitudinous objects, which they behold in their travels (through the Lords Creation) both on sea, in sea, and on land. viz. all sorts and kinds of fish, foul, and beasts, whether wilde, or tame; all sorts of trees, and fruits; all sorts of people, cities, towns, and countries; with many profitable, and useful rules, and instructions for them that use the seas. / By Daniel Pell, preacher of the Word.	Pell, Daniel.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1069; Thomason E1732_1; ESTC R203204	470,159	726

is not onely all neither but hereby where such are either at Sea or Land there may the sooner bee a looking for a curse than a blessing in all their undertakings And again a war that is undertaken upon just and good grounds It is not unlawfull to use the help of those who fight out of a bad intention either out of hatred violence ambition honour or desire of plunder for their bad intention does not violate the righteousness of the cause Is there not many Sea-Captains that fight for nothing in the world but their 10 pound and 15 pound per moneth I may say of Sailors what one said of Law Logick Switsers They may bee hired to fight for any one Sea man Sea-man get better principle And is there not thousands of Sea-men that fight for their 18. shillings per moneth Nay may I not say that they would fight for the Devil would hee but give them better wages than the States do How many thousands bee there of them that are now fighting day by day in one part or other of the world and they know not what they fight for save onely this Saile ship and come pay-day They look not upon the glory of God nor the cause that is in hand against the proud opposers of Christ and his glorious and everlasting Gospel And now I will not deny but that these will serve to goe on in the wars to do Christs work in the world withall though hee hurl the rod into the fire after all is done It is well known in all Histories that the trash and trumpery of the world have evermore gone in the wars and indeed they are the fittest men to lose their lives for the godly and well-minded people in the world cannot well bee spared and should they bee slain the world would sustain great loss in their deaths But now what shall I say of all the wars that are on foot in the world whether in the North or in the East in the South or in the West May I not say that sin has made a man a very hurtful and harmful creature man is not now become hurtful to beasts and beasts to man but one man unto another and one Nation with and to another And this has been so of old and is no new thing still but likely to bee so as long as there is so much of the first Adam in the world both acting and ruling in the sons of men as long as Pride shall bee seen exalted above the grace of Humility Covetousness above Contentedness Lust above Chastity and Enmity above Love and Charity never look for better in the world Man till sinfull was never thus hurtfull Before hee sinned was hee not naked and neither feared nor offered wrong and will not his sinless estate ever bee known by the state of innocency When that lost Image of God comes once to bee recovered again in all men generally and when the Kingdoms of the Earth shall become the Kingdoms of the Lord Jesus Christ then shall there bee peace and quietness in the Earth that one may walk up and down in the world at pleasure but not till then When mankind shall become a lamb then will it bee a glorious age and never till then It is observed that all other creatures save the lamb are armed by natures providence but the lamb is sent into the world naked and un-armed comes into it with neither offensive nor defensive weapons When mankind comes once to receive the glorious Image of the Lord then will there bee no longer this fighting and contentious principle that is in the hearts of most men but they will bee as meek and harmeless as the Dove who in the Greek is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sine cornibus non feriens cornibus An hornless creature Phil. 2.15 But now Dii boni what indignities what affronts what pushing with the ten horns and with the little horn spoken of in Scripture When that you see once the Lyons Bears ravening Wolves and Tygers of the world to bee turned into Lambs and their wolvish and Lion-like natures changed and metamorphosed into a Dove-like meekness then may it be said that there is then new Heavens and new Earth and in the interim never look for a cessation of war in the world till there bee some great Gospel-work wrought in the Earth But fourthly That which now follows in order is the consideration of this word Great waters The Spirit of the Lord here takes great delight to put this distinguishing accent upon them and indeed it is a very famous and glorious title that God is pleased to set upon their heads Great waters calling them great in opposition to small Rivulets which the eyes of Inland dwellers are upon It is a well known axiom in Philosophy Set but contraries in the presence of each other Opposita juxta se posita magis elucescunt and the difference is quickly made Therefore in our speaking of the Great waters pray what are the Aquae Stagnantes in a Land and what are the Fontaneae Scaturigines sive Torrentes sive Fluvii maximi What are the great Rivers or the standing pools and running torrents of a Land in comparison to the great and wide Ocean As vast a disproportion and dissimilitude is there betwixt them as there is betwixt the shining Sun and a twinckling star or betwixt the massy Elephant and the little bodied Mouse The Spirit of the Lord titles them Great waters and to speak re vera Legere non intelligere est negligere in re tamen seria really they are so as I shall by and by declare upon several accompts They who have never seen the Seas nor ever sailed in them and upon them they cannot credit their magnitude latitude and longitude and when they read over that 1 Chap. Gen. 9. where God said Let the waters under the Heaven bee gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear and it was so it is but transiently inconsiderately and at the best unponderingly for there is but few that mind or apprehend what they read Why These are waters indeed in respect they are little less in spatiousness nay if not greater than the whole Earth joyn all the small Ex pede Hereulem wee say The skilful Geometrician finding the length of Hercules foot upon the hill Olympus made the portracture of his whole body by it You may judge of the Seas though you never saw them and great Islands and Continents that be either in the East and West North and South together they are not so vast and large as the Seas bee Now I know that many are very prone to deem this assertion as a thing not credible because of the weakness of their judgements but that I may bring those into a beleef of it that may call what is laid down here into question I will tell them what they shall do to put the thing out of

they are provided for that are without fuel in Island and elsewhere In this Island there is another very remarkable passage that there bee several waters in it which are of such a vehement ardency that they will boyl both fish foul and beef in And in these waters the people both dress and cook all their victuals and bays which the people take up and reserve for winter Certainly hee that guided the Kine which bare the Ark 1 Sam. 6.12 guides and orders that these parcels of wood faggots or fuel should come unto those that would bee starved if they were not thus helped every year and besides if there were not a visible hand of providence appearing for this people that live in a Country where doubtless wood will not grow or otherwise for firing it has been destroyed these peeces that swim upon the floods of the Seas might go from them and into the middle of the Sea rather than unto them if not directed c. 17. Their aspect of the Sea which is sometimes of such an ignifluous lustre as if it were full of Starrs insomuch that if a peece of wood or any other ponderous thing should be thrown into it at such times in the night it will show it self as if it were full of firesparkles Whence that Proverb As true as the Sea burns 18. The sight of those two burning Islands Hecla and Helga is another these are often times covered over with Snow yet burn within and belch out very terrible and vehement sparks of fire 19. Their viewing and walking up and down in the goodly sumptuous princely and stately Cities that bee in the world viz. Constantinople Grand-Cair Genoa Venice Naples Rome c. 20. A sight of those fearful and unusual Lightnings and Thunderings that bee sometimes in the Occidental and Austral parts of the world which are with such vehemency and dreadfulness that one would think that the Heavens and the Earth would come together I have heard the honestest and godliest of men that use the Seas say that when they have been in the Indies if they did but see a cloud appearing in the bigness of ones hand they need no other warning but that a most dreadful storm would ensue Insomuch that they have been forced to make all the haste they could to get sails furl'd yards peak'd and their ships fitted to endure it as well as they could The Observation was this That the most or the greatest part of Gods glorious and wonderful works are seen by Sea-men The point then will afford us these two uses 1. Of Reproof And 2. Of Exhortation 1. Vse Reproof 1. Is it thus then that you that are Sailors and Sea-men do see most of the Lords works yea more than all the people in the world besides Platonists by the sight of Nature see more yea and will shame thousands of our Sailors for they could say that all that pulchtitude and beauty that shines in the creature was but Splendor quidam summi illius boni pulchrum coelum pulchra terra sed pulchrior qui fecit illa Surely this point looks with a sour look upon you that make no improvement nor application of things unto your selves for better amendment than you do I may say unto you in the words of Job 35.11 who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven that God hath taught us more than the beasts of the field and hath made man wiser than the fowls of heaven therefore God looks for another manner of glory and understanding from you that are men than hee doth from them and more from those that are Christians than from natural and carnal men It is a notable saying of Mr. Calvins Diabolica ist aec scientia said hee quae in natura contemplatione nos retinens a Deo avertit That is a Devillish kinde of knowledge that in the contemplation of nature keeps men in nature and holds them back from God After this manner may I speak unto you that it is a devillish kinde of knowledge that you have of the Seas and of the Creation if that all you see know and hear of keep you still in nature what better art thou than a beast for all thy travel Give mee leave to tell you thus much 1. That there is a seeing eye in the world an eye that is much in Quaelibet herba Deum stella creaturaque and upon Gods works Isa 40.26 Job 26.8 Hee bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds and the cloud is not rent under them A seeing eye looks on nothing that is either in Sea or Land but thinks of God in it I have read of one that was so spiritual and heavenly-minded that when hee was in the world where hee had a full view of many wonderful things hee said there was nothing that ever hee did behold but hee saw God in it When I cast mine eyes upon the Earth I saw that God was every where When I looked upon the Heavens I considered with my self that that was his Throne When I looked into the depths of the Sea I beheld the power and wisdome of God in the creating of them And when I looked upon the many creeping things that were in it they told mee that God was there I looked also into the breathing air with all the inhabitants of it and it told mee that God was there whose proper Attribute is to bee every where I looked up into the Starry sphere and spangled roof of heaven which glisters with innumerable stars from whence I learned that that is a Christians Country who is in Christ and from thence do I look for my Saviour and the longer I do look upon those glorious and burning and shining Tapers of the heavens which are estimated the very least of them to bee bigger than the whole earth I consider that God hath undoubtedly great and just expectations from man that hee will do some work and service for his Maker Most Masters will not allow their servants to sport and idle whilst their candles are burning but if they finde them so doing they will blow them forth Certainly Sea-men you may conclude that God looks for great things from you who see so much of the Creation that others see not Will it not bee tollerabler for the ignorant Indian c. and the miserable heathen that is in the world than it will bee for you who have no other light but the light of nature to walk by I may compare the generality of Sea-men unto a Traveller who doth in his vagaries leave all things behind him in his way he passes by stately Towers and comely Turrets brave buildings both of Marble Brick and hewn stone goodly Cities Towns and Countries comely and beautiful people and other some both black and tawny and these hee beholds for a while and admires them and passeth on and leaveth them afterwards he goes thorow the ●ields

in the South-West and by West c. Psal 107.43 Who so is wise will observe these things 4. And lastly The other Army lies quartered in the South and this oftentimes is very commonly the fiercest and furiousest of them all This Army may be called neque manere finet neque navigare Sometimes it will neither suffer ships to sail nor to keep the Sea insomuch that it makes the Seas run mountain-high and lye all upon a bubling froth and curded foam This Army marches one while into the South and by East South and by and by into the South-East South-East and by South c. and is very ready and attentive to carry on the Lords designs either for good or evil There is both a wonderful vertibility and also variableness in the winds one while they are here and by and by they are there Eccl. 1.6 The wind goeth towards the South and turneth about unto the North it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits Oh what quick eyes hearing eares ready feet strong arms may I say has these four-wind armies to go yea run If that an Italian General could say when one of his Noble● complained unto him of their want of men I can have all Italy up in arms with one stamp of my feet upon the Earth What do you think then of the Lord cannot hee have all his forces both in Heaven and Earth up in arms Land sooner than Armies of men can bee at the sound of trumpet or at the beat of drum and fly upon Gods commands What more frequent than to hear this amongst the Mariners Wee were shipwracked when the Nothern wind-army lay in the North North-West and wee lost our ship says another when the Eastern wind-army lay in the East and by South c. and wee lost our ship says another when the Southern wind-army lay in the South and by East South c. and wee lost our ship seems another to say when the Western wind-army was upon its march in the West South-West c. But to proceed I will run on in a few more particulars as God has wind-armies at command so has hee many other strange unminded and unobserved armies to march into the field against a people when hee pleases 1. God has his Angel-fighting-armies some whereof are good and other some are bad 2 Sam. 24.16 And when the Angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it the Lord repented him of the evil c. 2 King 19.35 And it came to pass that night that the Angel of the Lord went out If one Angel could do thus much what could not Christs twelve Legions have done upon the wicked Jews and smote in the Camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand c. 2. The Lord has his Sun Moon and Star fighting Armies and this is another sort of army that the Lord has sometimes mustred up to shew his mighty Power and these are called the Hosts of Heaven Deut. 17.3 This Host was up in Arms in Joshua's time Josh 18.12 13. But some may object and say this is something strange how should the Sun the Moon or the Stars fight I answer God may take away the use the benefit the light and the influences of them and in this sense the battel will bee found too hard to escape in 3. The Lord has his men-fighting-armies at command Exod. 12.51 By these did the Lord bring Israel out of Egypt The wicked are Gods sword and his Armies Isa 10.5 6 7. Jer. 25.9 God has Armies of men both good and bad and when hee pleases hee can presently arm them and send them upon errands of ruine and destruction against a Nation 4. The Lord has his water-fighting-armies at command Gen. 6.17 And behold I even I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven and every thing that is in the earth shall die 5. The Lord has his fire-fighting-armies at command Gen. 9.24 2 King 1.10 Levit. 10.2 And this Army shall bee up in arms either in ships at Sea or Houses Towns and Cities on Land to set them on burning flames 6. The Lord has his air-fighting army at command and when hee is pleased and displeased with a people hee lets flye the arrows of pestilence out of the strong bended bow of his fierce wrath and irresistable indignation He can infect the aire Numb 16.46 and this arrow shall neither flye over nor short but hit the white the person or the persons that the Lord aimes at whether they bee Towns or Cities Nations or Countries this contagious air shall lay siedge unto them and over them and the Sun shall not bee able to drive it away nor the winds to sweep it away and this stinking aire is able to stifle all whether in Towns Cities or Countries if hee do but impower it and set it on 7. The Lord has his Hail-stone-army at command this Army was up and on foot for God in Joshua's time Josh 10.11 I would all the Drunkards and Swearers Take heed Sailors how you sail to and again in the Seas with hearts full of guilt hands full of blood tongues full of lies and heads full of sinful projects and unreconciled men to God that are either in the States or Merchants Service would tremble before the Lord and bee in fear lest their pates should bee broken with hail-stones out of the Heavens 8. The Lord has his Earth-fighting-army at command Numb 16.32 And the Earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their houses c. Take heed Godless man how you walk on Earth lest at every step thou takest the Earth open to bury thee alive for thy drunken and swearing life 9. God has his fighting Armies at command out of the meanest and contemptiblest minutila's that are and these shall come in as good regimental and warlike order as the Souldier at the sound of trumpet or beat of drum viz. Lice Frogs Worms c. How have these adventured into Kings Palaces and who gave them that boldness These broke in at the windows ranged like rude Soldiers into every room belonging to Pharaoh's house Exod. 8.6 16.17 Acts 12.23 10. God oftentimes makes Conscience a terrible gnawing and fighting Army and this the great God of Heaven has command of to send a tormenting Hell into it who is able to stand in the face of this battel This enemy shoots through and through Job could not stand in it for hee cryed out Have pitty upon mee have pitty upon mee Oh my friends for the hand of the Lord hath touched mee But to proceed There is one phrase in the words before us that would bee a little opened and explained 1. What wee are to understand by a Stormy wind 2. What the effects of it are 1. I find that Scripture is delighted to speak of this very vapour Of that

which will contain and hold a full gallon of any thing whether liquid or unliquid and upwards 2. Amongst the rest of the works of the Lord Eagle they have a frequent sight of that princely bird called the Eagle and where her dwelling is who is the Supream Rex of all birds and of her do all the rest stand in awe and give her the preheminence as their Soveraign It is observed of this bird that shee is attended with sharpness of sight to discover her prey with swiftness of wing to hasten unto it and with strength of body to seize upon it It is further observed of this bird that shee has many followers both great and small unto whom shee is very candid and courteous in the distribution of the prey shee seizes upon It is observed that there is this noble and magnanimous spirit in the Eagle that when shee is in want and greatly suffers hunger that shee scorns to pout and make a noise and a clamour as other birde will do but rests her self satisfied If I have it not now I shall have it hereafter but if shee toyle long in seeking of it then hunger which is her durum telum puts her upon the falling foul of her followers 3. They have a frequent sight of the fouls in Greenland every year which are aestate ibi hyeme attamen veniente avolantes there for a while in the summer but gone long before the winter When the Nocturnal time of the year draws on which is all night and tenebrousness the birds make a terrible doleful and dreadful howling as conscious or fore-seeing of that dismal time of black night's approaching they then betake themselves to their wings and fly into other Countries leaving that black-nighted part of the world unto it self and to the Involatile creatures that do inhabit in it viz. Deer Wolves Beares c. Which would if winged or able to run out of the land bee gone for they take small pleasure to stay in it but in respect they cannot pass the Seas for want of wings they are constrained to live in that uncomfortable darkness and insufferable cold Meditations 1. That the two great lights of the Sun What an uncomfortable place would England bee if it had not the light of the Sun and Moon both in in the winter and in the summer and Moon are wonderful comfortable profitable pleasurable and delightful both to man birds and beasts and very uncomfortable is their absence either unto the sick the healthful and the unhealthful Eccl. 11.7 Truly the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sun What cause have wee to bless the Lord for the light of the Moon and of the Sun that hee has not denyed us their light and that wee have not our beings in those black and benighted parts of the world that are all winter long without The light of the Sun is a sweet benefit but not prized because common and ordinary Manna was esteemed but a light kind of food because common and lightly come by without any price and mony David beholds the Sun with admiration Psal 8. and not with adoration as an Idol The Sun is a vessel into which the Lord gathered the light which till then lay scattered in the whole body of the Heavens In Hebrew the Sun is called Shemesh to serve because God has made it a servant unto and for the world 2. God might have done by England as hee has done by Greenland But blessed bee his glorious Name hee has dealt better by it and with it 3. It has laid this impression upon my spirit That as birds who by the help of their wings will not tarry in that Nocturnal Land but flye out of it into other Countries where they may have the blessed light of the Sun and of the Moon What would the poor damned and tormented in the pit of Hell give that they might come out of that dark and black excruciating Hell that they do howl and roare in to live in that lightsome and glorious pearl-sparkling and diamond-glistring Heaven where there is no need of Sun by day nor of the Moon by night Luke 16.24 is a dolefull spectacle of one crying out of the burning flames hee lives in 4. They have a frequent aspect of that lovely and amiable bird called the Stork much noted by the Holy Ghost in Scripture Stork As for the Stork the fir-tree is her house Psal 104.17 This bird uses Holland and other places and is very famous for her natural love unto her young and her young unto the aged again Storks when young and able to help their young when decayed helps the aged by feeding of them when they are not able to go abroad to gather their food Her name comes of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek in Latine no more but Amor. The Graecians call her Love denoting that shee is the truest emblem of Love of any creature in the world again 5. They have a vulgar aspect in the West-Indies of those various kinds of foul that bee in those parts both smal Upon Sand-hills there is to bee seen in the Summer-time say Sea-men whole bushels of egs that are both of various and wonderful speckled colours and great which are of divers colours some green some blew some red some yellow some white and other-some of a niger colour There they see the Parrat flying in great flocks and droves like to our Pidgeons and Pelicans flying in lines like to wild-geese Such an innumerable number is there of all sorts of fouls that great and broad rivers are covered over from side to side with them 6. They have a very frequent sight of that admirable bird Ostrich called the Ostrich whom some will compound to be both bird and beast because she resembles the Camel in legs and feet in the head and bill a Sparrow This creature is of such an hot digesting stomack that it will swallow great gobbets of Iron I have known some to present them with a two-penny or a three-penny naile which they have taken as greedily as a cock will pick up a barly-corn out of a dunghil Job 39.14 Shee leaves her eggs in the dust of the earth In this now this creature differs very much from all other birds who carefully sit to brood and hatch their eggs and are very desirous to bring them forth yet this creature leaves hers in the sand forgeting that the foot of the wilde beast or the Traveller may come that way and crush them Vers 15 16. Shee is hardened against her young ones as though they were not hers and is it not thus amongst many Parents towards their children Vers 3. What time shee lifteth up her self fixe scorns the horse and the rider This is to bee understood not that shee is of that strength and ability of body to contend with an horse-man in fight but in her wings legs and

to flye nor to run so fast as to escape their pursuers in body somewhat less than a Goose but bigger than a Mallard short and thick having no feathers but instead thereof a matted down that is very hard and their beaks are not much unlike to the bills of crows these foul lodge in earth as Rabbets do 15. They have a sight and cognizance of that strange sort and kind of foul Noddy which is called a Noddy It is observed that when this bird is pleased to take her flight into foraign Countries being much toyled and wearied by flying over that dreadful deluge or Sea of water shee will betake her self to the first ships shee can descry to rest her self upon and the Mariners who both know them and are very observant of them or any other birds that light upon their ships which they know do come unto them out of a meer necessity will fall a hollowing and shouting at her and after shee hears that noise and clamour below the poor bird has no power to spread out her wings and bee gone but the Sea-men may run up the shrouds and fetch her down with their hands for there shee sits as one bewitched or necromantickly inchanted 16. They have a sight of that strange kind of bird which is called by some a Tumbler Tumbler of which sort there bee many in Barbary which will fetch a flight up to the Heavens and then come tumbling down again over and over as if some thing were a falling in a praecipitant manner out of the Heavens with very great violence This bird is in shape and form like to one of our Land-Pidgeons differing a little in size and colour 17. They have a frequent sight of that domableness that is in the major part of the birds and souls that bee in the Indies how one may walk amongst them turn them over with their feet It is observable that the fouls in the Indies will come and lay their eggs at ones foot if they walk amongst them on their Sand-hils and if they bee upon their nests they will not stir unless they pull them off The little Pygmies are forced to stand to their arms when they hear the sonorous alarms of the Cranes who will come and carry them into the clouds and take them up in their hands and it is probable that this tameableness is in them because man is a great stranger to them and seldom comes amongst them 18. Amongst the rest of that novelty and variety of objects they do tell us that if they shoot but off a gun in those parts and places where the Fouls lye that they will rise both off the waters and from off the land with such an hideous and sonorous noise that one would think the very heavens were a crashing and falling upon their heads Their clapping of their wings make a greater noise than an Army of horse and foot when they are on their march Hence sings the Poet from the like experience Ad subit as Thrae●um volucres nubemque sonoram Pygmaeus parvia currit Bellator in armis It would yeeld much laughter in our parts to see a Pygmye and a Craines quarrel 19. Amongst the rest of that novelty and variety of creatures they do survey and behold this is one which is no less admirable than the rest that they do call Pemblico because her usual and constant note is Pemblico Pemblico Pemblico this bird is seldom seen on the day time and in the night she is very clamorous but if heard by Sea-men it is oftentimes too true a presage prognostick of some dreadful storm and tempest When the Sea-man hears this bird in those occidental parts of the world hee looks for little good and moderate weather 20. Cahow They have a sight of the bird called a Cahow and is one of them The Arara is a bird which they often see about the bigness of a Goshawk seeming a whole garden of Tulips every feather being of a several colour which beheld in the Sun-shine dazles the eyes which is one of the nocturnal kinde and loves not to bee seen in the day but in the night as the Bat and the Owl with us but in the night when all other Foul are at roost and quiet shee will come forth and if shee hear any loud sounding hollowing or shouting shee will make directly towards them for shee hath no power of her self to stay where shee is so that oftentimes when Mariners have set up a shouting in the night they would come and light upon their heads and shoulders 21. Dotteril They have a sight of the Dotteril of whom they say that whatsoever is done in the sight of her shee will exactly imitate and endeavour to do the like if an hand bee but put forth shee will stretch out her leg if they beck or nod with the head shee will do the like with hers again And all this time the poor silly bird hath no power to flye away but becomes a prey unto the Fouler after this ridiculous order 22. It is observed of the Quail that when he is grown weary with flying that hee will light in the calm Sea on one side resting of himself with his other held up above the water towards heaven lest he should presume too long a flight so that at first he usually wets one wing and lest he should despair of taking a new flight afterwards he keeps the other wing dry Amongst the rest of that amaene novelty and variety that they have in the Seas is the Quail in whose flight over the Sea it is observed that when this bird is defatigable and wearied with flying that hee will betake himself to any ship that is within the sight of him to rest himself upon it Sometimes great flocks and droves of these birds will light clogging and cleaving to the yard arms of ships as if they would break all down with their ponderousness Thus much shall suffice now to speak of Birds and may I Apologize for my self it is but little in comparison of that which others that have travelled are able to report of I will now take my leave and run upon the other particular that I promised unto you and follow that rule of Alium post alium florem in pratis oarpere smelling and savouring of one flower after another The second circumstance comes now upon the stage to bee insisted and descanted upon is of those creatures that are Gressile 1. They that go down to the Sea in ships Amongst the rest of that novelty and variety that they have in their viewing of the Creation they have a full eye-satisfying sight of one of Gods greatest and mightiest land-creatures that bee upon the face of the whole earth again which is in Scripture called the Behemoth Elephant and with us an Elephant This beast is of a crusty nature and of an impenetrable skin Some Writers tell us that