i^^ SEAL. Class I; 



feet, when extended, was three inches and a half: 

 the hind legs were placed in fuch a manner, as to 

 point diredly backwards ; and were ten inches 

 long : each hind foot, when extended, was nine 

 inches and a half broad : every foot was divided 

 into five toes -, and each of thofe connefted by a 

 ftrong and broad web, covered on both fides with 

 {hort hair. 



The toes were furnifhed with ftrong claws, well 

 adapted to aflift the animal in climbing the rocks it 

 bafKcd on : the claws on the hind feet were about 

 an inch long, flender, and ftraitj except at the 

 ends, which were a little incurvated. 



The circumference of the body in the thickeft 

 part, which was near the fhoulders, was one foot 

 ten inches ; but near the hind legs, where it was 

 narroweft, it meafured only twelve inches. 



Th6 head and nofe were broad and flat, like thofe 

 of the otter ; the neck fhort and thick •, the eyes 

 large and black ; it had no external ears, but in 

 lieu of them, two fmall orifices : the noftrils were 

 oblong : on each fide the nofe were^feveral long 

 ftiff hairs •, alid above each eye, were a few of the 

 fame kind. 

 Tongue. The form of the tongue of this animal is fo fin- 

 gular, that were other notes wanting, that alone 

 would diftinguifh it from all other quadrupeds; 

 being forked, or flit at the end. 



The cutting teeth are Angular in refped to their 

 number, being fix in the upper jaw, and only four 



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