Again, Though many there be which make out their nominations, as the Hedg-hog, Sea-serpents and others; yet are there also very many that bear the name of animals at Land, which hold no resemblance in corporal configuration; in which account we compute _Vulpecula_, _Canis_, _Rana_, _Passer_, _Cuculus_, _Asellus_, _Turdus_, _Lepus_, etc. Wherein while some are called the Fox, the Dog, the Sparrow or Frog-fish: and are known by common names with those at Land; yet as their describers attest, they receive not these appellations from a total similitude in figure, but any concurrence in common accidents, in colour, condition or single conformation. As for Sea-horses which much confirm this assertion; in their common descriptions, they are but Crotesco deliniations which fill up empty spaces in Maps, and meer pictorial inventions, not any Physical shapes: sutable unto those which (as _Pliny_ delivereth) _Praxiteles_ long ago set out in the Temple of _Domitius_. For that which is commonly called a Sea-horse, is properly called a Morse, and makes not out that shape. That which the Ancients named _Hippocampus_ is a little animal about six inches long, and not preferred beyond the classis of Insects. That which they termed _Hippopotamus_ an amphibious animal, about the River _Nile_, so little resembleth an horse, that as _Mathiolus_ observeth, in all except the feet, it better makes out a swine. That which they termed a Lion, was but a kind of Lobster: that which they called the Bear, was but one kind of Crab: and that which they named _Bos marinus_, was not as we conceive a fish resembling an Ox, but a Skait or Thornback, so named from its bigness, expressed by the Greek word _Bous_, which is a prefix of augmentation to many words in that language. And therefore although it be not denied that some in the water do carry a justifiable resemblance to some at Land, yet are the major part which bear their names unlike; nor do they otherwise resemble the creatures on earth, then they on earth the constellations which pass under animal names in heaven: nor the Dog fish at Sea much more make out the Dog of the Land, then that his cognominal or name-sake in the heavens. Now if from a similitude in some, it be reasonable to infer a correspondence in all, we may draw this analogy of animals upon plants; for vegetables there are which carry a near and allowable similitude unto animals. [SN: Fab. column. de stirp. rarioribus, Orchis, Cercopithecophora, Anthropophora.] We might also conclude that animal shapes were generally made out in minerals: for several stones there are that bear their names in relation to animals or their parts, as _Lapis anguinus_, _Conchites_, _Echinites_, _Encephalites, Ægopthalmus_, and many more; as will appear in the Writers of Minerals, and especially in _Bœtius_ and _Aldrovandus_.