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in the lower. It has two canine teeth above arid 

 below, and on each fide of the jaws five grinders ; 

 the total thirty-four. 



The whole animal was covered with fhort hair, 

 very clofely fet together : the color of that on the 

 head and feet was dufky : on the body dufky, 

 fpotted irregularly with white : on the back the 

 dufky color predominated-, on the belly white: but 

 feals vary greatly in their marks and colors, and 

 fome have been found * entirely white. One that 

 was taken near CheJleVy in May 1766, had on its 

 firft capture, the body naked like the fkin of a por- 

 pefe V and only the head and a fmall fpot beneath 

 each fore leg, hairy : it was kept alive fome time" 

 but before it died, hair began to grow over the 

 whole body -f . 



The feal is common on mod of the rocky fliores 

 oi Great Britain and Ireland, efpecially on the nor- 

 thern coafts : in JVales it frequents the coafts of 

 Caernarvonjhire, and Anglefey, It preys entirely 

 on fifh, and never molefts tl-ie fca fowl : for I 

 have feen numbers of each floating on the waves, 

 as if in company. Seals eat their prey beneath the 

 watery and in cafe they are devouring any very 

 oily fifh, the place is known by a certain fmoothnefs 



* In the Apmokan Mtifeum at Oxford, is a good pifture of 

 two white feals. 



t Vide The figure publilhed in the additional plates of the 

 folio edition of this work. 



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