ARC T IG’ WAL RDS. 
In the upper jaw are two very long tufks, bending downwards. 
No cutting teeth ; but in each jaw, above and below, four grinders, 
flat at top, and the furfaces of thofe which I examined much worn. 
The length of the largeft tufk I have heard of, was two feet three 
~ inches, Engli/b meafure, the circumference at the lower end, eight 
and a half; the greateft weight of a fingle tufk twenty pounds: 
but fuch are rarely found, and only on the coafts of the /cy fea, where 
they are feldom molefted, and of courfe permitted to attain their full 
growth *. 
The Walrus is fometimes found of the length of eighteen feet, 
and the circumference, in the thickeft part, ten or twelve. The 
weight from fifteen hundred to two thoufand pounds. 
Inhabits, in prefent times, the coafts of the Magdalene iflands, in 
the gulph of St. Laurence, between latitude 47 and 48, their moft 
foutherly refidence in any part of the globe. They are not found 
on the feas of Labradore. The Efkimaux purchafe the teeth, for 
the heading their Seal-darts, from the Indians of Nuckvank, about lat. 
60; who fay, that they are annually vifited in the winter by multitudes 
of thefe animals +. They are found in Davis's Streights, and with- 
in Hudfon’s Bayt, in lat. 62. They alfo inhabit the coaft of Green- 
Jand. \ am uncertain whether they frequent /ce/avd; but they are 
found in great numbers near the iflands of Spitzdergen, and on all the 
floating ice from thence to Cherry Ile, a folitary {pot intermediate 
between the laft and the moft northerly point of Norway. In 1608, 
they were found there in fuch numbers, huddled on one another, 
like hogs, that a fhip’s crew killed above nine hundred in feven 
hours time §. 
If they are found in the feas of Norway, it is very rare || in thefe 
days. Leems, p. 310, fays that they fometimes frequent the fea 
about Finmark; but about the year 980, they feemed to have been 
fo numerous in the northern parts, as to become objects of chafe and 
* Hifi. Kamt/chatka, 120. + Pb. Tranf. \xiv. 378. t Ellis’s voy. 806 
§ Martens Spitzberg. 182. || Pantoppidan, ii. 157. 
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