including Club-footed, and Half-footed Beasts. 359 



Hliger. The semipeds agree with the other half of the mam- 

 raalious amphibia of Lamarck, the herbivorous cetacea of 

 Cuvier and Latreille, or the sirenia, which form the first 

 section of the natant beasts of Illiger : and the pinnipeds, or 

 warm-blooded fishes of the ancients, answer to the cete of Lin- 

 naeus and Blumenbach, the c^tac^s of Lamarck, the ordinary 

 cetacea of Cuvier, the hydrauUc cetacea of Latreille, and t% 

 latter section of llliger's natantia. ,rt 



t The very curious manner in which these beasts have been, 

 hi differenX times, and by different systematists arranged, and 

 the mutual alliances which, on all hands, have been maintained, 

 although some have associated the intermediate type with one, 

 and some with the other extreme, would seem to justify an 

 inquiry into their true connexions, and as the result of this, it 

 may be enunciated that the Belluas marinae, or sea beasts, 

 should form a common group, and be associated in an especial 

 order, of which the fin-footed, half-footed, and club-footed 

 series, will form the respective types : their ancient name some- 

 what restricted (so as to exclude the shark and other veritable 

 fish) may also be resumed, and hence the order which includes 

 the pinnipeds, semipeds, and loripeds, will resume the general 

 appellation, cete, or cetacea ; or perhaps, to avoid confusion, 

 as these words have been so variously extended and restricted, 

 cetetherae, or whale-beasts, may be advantageously introduced 

 for xiQ-no, xTjTeiof, whence cete, cetaceous ; and wal^ or whal, 

 whence whaler were formerly all used as common terms to 

 indicate several distinct and separate, perhaps any uncouth 

 sea-monsters, and this their derivatives, especially those of the 

 latter, wal-rus, nar-tvhal, whale, will clearly shew. .aav^rf. 



Notwithstanding the zoological discoveries of modern times 

 have greatly swelled the catalogues of the other types, the 

 number of known cetetherae is still but small ; the obscurity 

 and extent of the boundless depths in which they dwell, have 

 hitherto forbidden a sufficiently satisfactory research ; but, 

 doubtless, hereafter Cetology will add many, now unthoughtof 

 animals, to those which, at present, constitute its members and 

 fill its ranks. 

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