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WALRUS. 
71, ARCTIC. 
_ Descriprion. 
ARCTIC WALRUS. 
DIV. III. Pinnated Quadrupeds ; 
Or, with Fin-Like FEET. 
HIsT. QUAD. Gzrws, XL. 
Hift. Quad, N° 373.—Phipps’s vey. 184. 
Rofmarus, Zimmerman, 330. 
Le Tricheque, Schreber, ii. 82. tab. Ixxix. 
Cheval Marin, Hift. Kamtfchatha, 427.—Smellie, vii. 354.—Lev. Mus. 
ALRUS. Witha round head; fhort neck; fmall and fiery 
eyes, funk a finger’s depth in the fockets, and retractile from 
external injuries *: mouth very fmall; lips very thick, befet above 
and below with great whifkers, compofed of briftles, tranfparent, ~ 
and thick as a ftraw: inftead of ears are two minute orifices, placed 
in the moft diftant part of the head. 
Body is very thick in the middle, leffening gradually towards the 
tail. The fkin in general is an inch thick, and two about the neck +, 
and much wrinkled about the joints: it is covered with fhort hair, 
of a moufe-color ; fome with reddifh, others with grey; others are 
almoft bare, as if they were mangy, and full of {cars f. 
The legs are very fhort; on each foot are five toes, connected by 
webs, with a fmall blunt nail to each. The hind feet, like thofe of 
Seals, are very broad: the tail is very fhort: the penis two feet long, 
and of a bony fubftance. 
* Crantz, i. 126. + Crantz, i. 125. t Marten’s Spitzberg. 
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