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portion than those ob- n the northern 



in which also tin- tusks are obse: i 

 r. nut to converge, as in the American 



the T. boreal is, or Whalc- 



1 \Valru-, the feel >f which very nearly re- 



i>le those of Wha! uniting no distinct 



app< of the toes or claws. It grows to 



a -till longer sj/e llian the common Walruss, 



sometimes measuring cight-and-twenty feet in 



th, and is an inhabitant of the Asiatic and 



in seas. 



A third .species is the T. Alanutus, or tin- Ma- 



nati, fuinid \n the Indian and- American rivers, 



and of which a curious anecdote is told by the 



historians of America, who relate that at the 



arrival of the Spaniards, a tame Manati was 



!>\ .1 Prince of Hispaniola, in a lake a.ljoin- 



in^ ! lii> residence; ;ind whieli, wlicn e;di.-d by 



it> name, \\oiild readily appear and suffer it-elf }o 



ly its protectors. It would occa>ion- 



ally oiler itself to its Indian favorites and carry 



th- in "\-r th- lake, to the number often at a 



'I playing on its back. At leu 

 iis-queiice of a violent inundation, it 



