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the eyes ; so that I found I could squeeze them in 

 arid out the depth of an inch ; from whence I might 

 conclude that this creature had also a shelter for its 

 eyes in stormy weather by drawing them into a safe 

 repository. I could scarce find the little apparatus 

 of the ears. Having no sharp incisors, it cannot 

 catch fish and chew them like the Seals ; and the 

 two long tusks or horns growing out of its face over 

 the nose, and bending down over its mouth, so as 

 almost to barricade it up, seem to be more an im- 

 pediment than a help to it. The right tusk was 

 about an inch longer than the left, and its whole 

 length was twenty-seven inches ; they stand about 

 three inches asunder in the head, and nine at the 

 extremities." 



As we have no where noticed any differences 

 pointed out between the male and female, it is pro- 

 bable that they are not considerable. The latter 

 have four mammae, which are ventral ; and they 

 usually bring forth one, though sometimes two at a 

 birth. Dr Shaw in his Zoology has figured two spe- 

 cies of this animal, and inferred their existence prin- 

 cipally from the differences in the representations 

 given by Johnston and Captain Cook. Whilst we 

 do not venture to deny that there may be two va- 

 rieties, yet as nothing like sufficient proof has hither- 

 to been afforded, we shall prosecute the subject as 

 if there were but one. 



In the very young, the tusks are not protruded, and 

 we regret that we cannot specify the period of their 

 appearing. Some Natuiausts have thrown out the 



