GREAT SEAL. 



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Phoca Barbata. P. capite l#vi inauriculato, corpore nigricante. 



Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 65. 

 Earless blackish Seal, with smooth head. 

 Le grand Phoque. Buff. \^.p. 345. 

 Great Seal. Pennant ^uadr. p. 277. 



THIS is similar to the common Seal, but grows 

 to the length of twelve feet; having been shot in 

 the north of Scotland of that size. When so 

 young as to have scarce any teeth it is upwards 

 of seven feet long; whereas the common Seal is 

 at its full growth when it has arrived at the length 

 of six feet. It is a native of the northern seas. 

 The skin, which is thick and strong, is said to be 

 used by the Greenlanders for thongs for their Seal 

 fishery. Mr. Pennant supposes this species to be 

 the same with the Great Kamtschatkan Seal, call- 

 ed by the Russians Lachtach, which weighs eight 

 hundred pounds, and whose young are of a black 

 colour. 



ROUGH SEAL. 



Phoca Hispida. P. capite la*vi stibauriculato, corpore pallide fusco 

 pilis surrectis hispido. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 64. 



Pale-brown subauriculated Seal, with the head smooth, and the 

 body covered with rising bristly hair. 



Rough Seal. Pennant Quadr. p. 278. 



THIS is of a pale brown colour, with rough 

 bristly hair, and is a native of the seas about 



