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Gesner, in his Icones, 1560 (p. 1 78), gives another fignre more hke 

 a Seal, and with the teeth in the upper jaw ; but it is represented as 



Fig. 5. Rosmarus. Gesner, Icones Aninialiuni, 1560, p. 178. De Cetis, Ord. xii. 

 (Reduced two-thirds.) 



having four feet, with claws like a Cat's, the fore legs being fur- 

 nished with short wings at their junction with the body; and the body 

 ends in a broad fan-like tail, similar to the hinder extremities of the 

 Seal. This figure is copied in Jonston's 'Pisces,' t. 44, in 1657. 



Fig. 6. Sea Horse. 1609. 



In 'The Three Voyages to the North in the year 1609,' reprinted 

 by the Hakluyt Society, a plate shows a " true portraiture of our 

 boat, and how we nearly got into trouble with the sea horses." This 

 animal is represented like a Seal, with the teeth in its upper jaw, 

 but the back is arched, and the belly a considerable distance from 

 the ice, on which it is walking. Another very rough seal-like figure 



Fig. 7. Wall-Ross. Marten's Spitzbergen, &c. 1675, t. P. fig, f>. 

 (Reduced three-tenths.) 



is given in Marten's 'Spitzbergen in 1675,' tab. P. fig. h. Buffon, 



