LAE POORR PNUES Ce EsA L. 
The Seal-hunters in Newfoundland have a large kind, which they 
call the Square Phipper, and fay weighs five hundred pounds. Its coat 
is like that of a Water-dog ; fo that it feems by the length of hair 
to be allied to this; but the vaft difference in fize forbids us from 
pronouncing it to be the fame {pecies. 
Hifi. Quad, N° 381. 
Phoca Leporina, Lepechin, 44, Acad. Petrop. pats i. 264. tab. vill. ix 
Hifi. Quad. N° 381. E 
EAL. With hair of an uniform dirty white color, with a tinge 
of yellow, but never fpotted ; hairs erect, and interwoven; foft 
as that of a Hare, efpecially the young: head long: upper lip fwell- 
ing and thick: whifkers very ftrong and thick, ranged in fifteen 
rows, covering the whole front of the lip, fo as to make it appear 
bearded: eyes blue, pupil black: teeth ftrong; four cutting teeth 
above, the fame below*: fore feet fhort, and ending abrupt: the 
membranes of the hind feet even, and not waved: tail fhort and 
thick ; its length four inches two lines. 
Length of this fpecies, from nofe to tip of the tail, is fix feet fix ; 
its greateft circumference five feet two. The cubs are milk white. 
This kind inhabits the White Sea during fummer, and afcends and 
defcends the mouths of rivers ¢ with the tide in queft of prey. It is 
alfo found on the coafts of Jeeland, and within the Polar circle from 
Spitzbergen to Tchutki No/s, and from thence fouthward about Kamé- 
Schatka. 
Like the others, it is killed for its fat and fkin. The laft is cut 
into pieces, and ufed for ftraps and reins. The fkins of the young, 
which are remarkably white, are dyed with black, and ufed to face 
caps, in imitation of Beavers fkins ; but the hairs are much ftiffer, 
and do not foon drop off. 
© Mr. Lepechin compares the number of the teeth to that of another kind (our 
Harp Seal) which, he fays, has only four teeth in the lower jaw. 
+ The fame. 
Y Hift, 
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75. LErorine. 
Size. 
