WALRUS. 



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Crantz says that it even reaches to eighteen, and Cuvier to 

 twenty feet. 



Tlie ordinary position of the animal on shore is shown 

 by our figure, which is a copy of an old engraving *' ad 

 vivuni delineatum ab Hesselo G. A." published in 

 " L'Histoire du Pays nomine Spitzberghe," at Amster- 

 dam, in 1613. Old as it is, it is the best representation 

 of the adult Walrus with which we are acquainted, and 

 has been repeatedly copied, as by Laet, Wormius, 

 Jonston, Shaw, &c. Most of the figures in books have 

 been drawn from preserved specimens, and assign the 

 position of a true Seal to the animal. 



