Conjectures as to the right translation of the Hebrew word _Akbar_--Signification of the word--The Mice which marred the land--Miracles, and their economy of power--The Field-mouse--Its destructive habits and prolific nature--The insidious nature of its attacks, and its power of escaping observation--The Hamster, and its habits--Its custom of storing up provisions for the winter--Its fertility and unsociable nature--The Jerboa, its activity and destructiveness--Jerboas and Hamsters eaten by Arabs and Syrians--Various species of Dormice and Sand-rats 91 THE HARE. The prohibitions of the Mosaic law--The chewing of the cud and division of the hoof--Identity of the Hare of Scripture--Rumination described--The Hare a rodent and not a ruminant--Cowper and his Hares--Structure of the rodent tooth--The Mosaic law accommodated to its recipients--The Hares of Palestine and their habits 96 CATTLE. The cattle of Palestine, and their decadence at the present day--Ox-flesh not used for food in modern times--Oxen of the stall, and oxen of the pasture--The use of the ox in agriculture--The yoke and its structure--The plough and the goad--The latter capable of being used as a weapon--Treading out the corn--The cart and its wheels--The ox used as a beast of burden--Cattle turned loose to graze--The bulls of Bashan--Curiosity of the ox tribe--A season of drought--Branding the cattle--An Egyptian field scene--Cattle-keeping an honourable post--The ox as used for sacrifice--Ox-worship--The bull Apis, and his history--Persistency of the bull-worship--Jeroboam's sin--Various names of cattle--The Indian buffalo 101 THE WILD BULL. The Tô, Wild Bull of the Old Testament--Passages in which it is mentioned--The Wild Bull in the net--Hunting with nets in the East--The Oryx supposed to be the Tô of Scripture--Description of the Oryx, its locality, appearance, and habits--The points in which the Oryx agrees with the Tô--The "snare" in which the foot is taken, as distinguished from the net 116 THE REÊM, OR "UNICORN" OF SCRIPTURE. The Reêm evidently known to the Jews--Various theories concerning the Unicorn--Supposed identity with the Indian Rhinoceros--Passages of Scripture alluding to the strength, violent and intractable temper of the Reêm--The Reêm a two-horned animal--Its evident connexion with the Ox tribe--Its presumed identity with the now extinct Urus--Mr. Dawkins' treatise on the Urus--Enormous size and dangerous character of the Urus--Rabbinical legend of the Reêm--Identity of the Urus with the modern varieties of cattle--The Bull-hunts of Nineveh 121 THE BISON.