that it represents a Lyon with his taile towards the East, and his head the West, and [1]some others have thought it to be very much like a Fox, & certainly 'tis as much like a Lyon as that in the Zodiake, or as Vrsa major is like a Beare.
I should guesse that it represents one of these as well as another, and any thing else as well as any of these, since 'tis but a strong imagination, which fancies such images as schoole-boyes usually doe in the markes of a wall, whereas there is not any such similitude in the spots themselves, which rather like our Sea, in respect of the land, appeares under a rugged and confused figure, and doth not represent any distinct image, so that both in respect of the matter and the forme it may be probable enough, that those spots and brighter parts may shew the distinction betwixt the Sea and Land in that other world.
- ↑ Eusebius Nioremb. Hist. Nat. lib. 8. c. 15.
