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pellation to a great Seal he encountered, because " he 

 roared like a lion ; w and others have conferred it 

 upon other animals, because they had teeth like 

 lion's teeth, and so forth. Steller, who, in 1742, first 

 gave a detailed account of some of these larger Seals, 

 described one under the name of Dampier's Sea- 

 Lion ; but in looking to Funnell's account, it is evi- 

 dent that no one could thereby distinguish the 

 species ; and from other considerations, it is almost 

 certain it had reference to the Proboscis Seal just 

 described, (p. 208,) which, as we have seen, was call- 

 ed Sea-Lion by Anson, and Sea- Wolf by Pernetty 

 But this is the least of our present confusion. Per- 

 netty gives an account of a Sea- Lion which he en- 

 countered at the Falkland Islands ; and Forster, in 

 his account of Cook's Voyage, supplies another of 

 a somewhat similar animal which they met with at 

 Staten's Land. From the general resemblance 

 merely, Pernetty regarded the great lion of the 

 Falkland Islands as identical with Steller's ; at the 

 same time remarking that there were several species 

 of Sea- Lion ;* and Forster was disposed to identify 

 the species he saw both with Steller's and Pernetty's ; 

 whilst Peron and other naturalists, who have paid 

 great attention to these amphibia, strongly contend 

 that there are three or more different kinds. Ana- 

 logy would certainly lead us to conclude that the 

 Seals of such different regions are themselves liffer- 

 ent, and without entering further into discussion upon 



Loc. c. p. 38. 



