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believe, minutely studied its history, but did not 

 publish the result of his labours. Mr Pennant, along 

 with his short description, gives a plate of a young 

 one which he found in the Leverian Museum, and 

 which had been captured in the Senegal. This spe- 

 cimen was six and a half feet long, though they 

 grow, he adds, to the length of fourteen and fifteen 

 feet. They are also very fat, and the fat. adheres 

 to the skin in the form of blubber.* 



Dr Harlan has published an account of what he 

 considers another Manatus, under the name of La- 

 tirostriS) and which appears to inhabit the great 

 rivers of the Floridas.f Most Naturalists suppose 

 that other living species still remain to be described; 

 and Baron Cuvier has discovered several fossil bonea 

 of the genus. 



We now proceed to the 



Hist, of Quadrupeds, vol. ii. p. 296. 

 t Philad. Jour, of Nat. Scien., rot u.. 



