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ness we were enabled to copy a finished drawing, 

 on a large scale, made by him of a group he obser- 

 ved on shore at the island of Tristan d'Acunha : it 

 consists of a large male, without a distinct probos- 

 cis, two females and a young calf: all the adults 

 pale buff, and the calf black ; and we learned from 

 him that the South Sea whalers, in their desire to 

 find fresh meat on deserted islands, have left pigs 

 on several, and thereby driven off the Sea Elephants, 

 who fear, or rather dislike, the vicinity of animals 

 always prowling along the beach, and unpleasantly 

 noisy, where they seek repose. We suspect this to 

 be the Phoca coxii of the isle of St. Paul, and pro- 

 visional? Y name it Mac. simus. 



