It had a thing instead of a head, but no head; it had a mouth distorted
out of all manner of shape, and not to be described for a mouth, being
only an unshapen chasm, neither representing the mouth of a man, beast,
fowl, or fish: the thing was neither any of the four, but an incongruous
monster: it had feet, hands, fingers, claws, legs, arms, wings, ears,
horns, every thing mixed one among another, neither in the shape or
place that nature appointed, but blended together, and fixed to a bulk,
not a body; formed of no just parts, but a shapeless trunk or log;
whether of wood, or stone, I know not; a thing that might have stood
with any side forward, or any side backward, any end upward, or any end
downward; that had as much veneration due to it on one side, as on the
other; a kind of _celestial hedgehog_, that was rolled up within itself,
and was every thing every way; formed neither to walk, stand, go, nor
fly; neither to see, hear, nor speak; but merely to instil ideas of
something nauseous and abominable into the minds of men that adored it.
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