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eight hundred pounds: were eaten by Bering’s crew; but their flefh 
was found to be very loathfome*. The cubs are quite black. 
Stetcer has left behind him accounts of other Seals found in thofe 
wild feas; but his defcriptions are fo imperfect as to render it im- 
poffible to afcertain the fpecies. He fpeaks in his MSS. of a middle- 
fized kind, univerfally and moft elegantly fpotted; another, black with 
brown fpots, and the belly of a yellowifh white, and as large as a 
yearling Ox; a third fpecies, black, and with a particular formation 
of the hinder legs; and a fourth, of a yellowifh color, with a great 
circle on it of the color of cherries +. 
_ Hift. Quad. N° 383. 
Phoca Feetida, Faun. Greenl. N° 8.—Neitfeck Greenl. Crantz, i. 
EAL. With a fhort nofe, and fhort round head: teeth like the 
common Seal: body almoft of an elliptical form, covered with 
lard almoft to the hind feet: hairs clofely fet together, foft, long, 
and fomewhat erect, with curled wool intermixed: color dufky, 
ftreaked with white; fometimes varies to white, with a dufky dorfal 
line. 
Does not exceed four feet in length. 
Never frequents the high feas, but keeps on the fixed ice in the re- 
mote bays near the frozen land; and when old never forfakes its 
haunts. Couples in Fune ; brings forth in Yanuary, on the fixed ice, 
which is its proper element. In that it has a hole for the benefit of 
fifhing; near that it remains ufually folitary, rarely in pairs. Is very 
incautious, and often fleeps on the furface of the water, yielding itfelf 
a prey to the Eagle. Feeds on {mall fith, fhrimps, and the like. The 
ufes of the fkin, tendons, and lard, the fame with thofe of other 
Seals. The flefh is red, and foetid, efpecially that of the males, 
which is naufeated by even the Greenlanders. 
* Muller's vey. 60. + Dr. Pallas, and Defer. Kamtfchatka, 420, 
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