Excerpt from Gleanings From the Natural History of the AncientsNarrative eagerly the more marvellous that it was. Anything in the nature of a traveller's Rory they welcomed as readily as we fhould difiruf't it. Thus the crocodile from an egg growing up to an exceeding magnitude, commo'n conceit and divers writers deliver, it hath no period of en creafe, but groweth as long as it liveth. And thus, in brief, in moft a'pprehenfions the conceits of men extend the confiderations of things, and dilate their notions beyond the propriety of their natures. (sir T. Browne, Vulgar Errors, vii. I.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.