06 WALRUS, OR SEA-HORSE, 



Though we have been somewhat full in our de- 

 scription, yet we do not deem it superfluous to ap- 

 pend a few sentence; from the racy account of the 

 Missionary Crantz The head is oval, but the 

 mouth so small that I could not quite put my fist 

 into it. On both its lips, and on each side of the 

 nose, is a kind of fungous skin, a hand's breadth, 

 stuck with a plantation of monstrous bristles, that 

 are a good span long, and as thick as a straw ; they 

 are like a three stranded cord, pellucid, and give to 

 the animal a majestic though a grim aspect. The 

 nose is very little raised, and the eye is not larger 

 than an Ox's. I could perceive no eye-lid, and as 

 I was at first searching for the eye and temples, a 

 Greenland boy pressed the skin, and out sprang 



