_The Man in the Moon_ (Vol. vi., pp. 61. 182. 232. 424.).--
"As for the forme of those spots, some of the vulgar thinke they
represent a man, and the poets guesse 'tis _the boy Endymion_, whose
company shee loves so well, that shee carries him with her; others will
have it onely to be the face of a man as the moone is usually pictured;
but Albertus thinkes rather that it represents {185} _a lyon_, with his
taile towards the east and his head to the west; and some others
(Eusebius, Nieremb. _Hist. Nat._, lib. VIII. c. xv.) have thought it to
be very much like a _fox_, and certainly 'tis as much like a lyon as
that in the zodiake, or as Ursa Major is like a beare.... It may be
probable enough that those spots and brighter parts may show the
distinction betwixt the sea and land in that other world."--Bishop
Wilkin's _Discovery of a New World_, 3rd. edit., Lond. 1640, p. 100.
"Does the _Man in the Moon_ look big,
And wear a huger periwig;
Show in his gait, or face, more tricks
Than our own native lunatics?"
_Hudibras_, pt. II. c. iii. 767.
To judge from his physiognomy, one would say the Man in the Moon was a
_Chinese_, or native of the Celestial Empire.