The Legend of Saint George and the Dragon

In the ancient joppa, now joffa on the syrian coast, in one of the pagan temples, there stood for many ages, the vast skeleton of a whale. When the romans took joppa, the same skeleton was carried to italy in triumphwhat seems most singular and suggestively important in the story is this, it was from joppa that jonah set sail. Akin to the adventure of perseus and andromada, indeed, by some, supposed to be indirectly derived from it. Which dragon i maintain to have been a whale. And let no man doubt this archite story.