RUBBON AND URSINE SEAL. 
der them thicker. With thefe they cover their boats, and with the 
undreffed fkins their tents; and, when they can get no other, make 
ufe of them for cloathing. 
The oil extraéted from the blubber of this Seal is far the moft 
valuable, being fweet, and fo free from greaves as to yield a greater 
quantity than any other fpecies. The flefh is black. 5 
The Newfoundland Seal-hunters call it the Harp, or Heart Seal, 
and name the marks on the fides the faddle. They fpeak too of a 
brown fort, which they call Bedlemer, and believe to be the young 
of the former. 
Hifi. Quad. N° 380. fig. at p. 513. 
EAL. With very fhort briftly hair, of an uniform gloffy color, 
almoft black: the whole back and fides comprehended within. 
a narrow regular {tripe of pale yellow. 
It is to Dr. Pallas 1 owe the knowlege of this fpecies. He re- 
ceived only part of the fkin, which feemed to have been the back 
and fides. The length was four feet, the breadth two feet three; 
fo it muft have belonged to a large fpecies. It was taken off the 
Kuril iflands.. 
Hift. Quad. N° 387: 
Kot Rufis Gentilibus ad Sinum Penchinicum, Tarlat/chega, Nov. Com. Petrop. ii. 331. 
tab xv. 
Sea Wolf *, Pernety, Engl. Tr. 187. tab. xvi.—UJIoa’s voy. i. 226. 
Chat Marin, Hif, Kamt/chatka, 433.. 
a ie With a high forehead: nofe projeéting like that of a: 
dog: black irides: fmaragdine pupil: whifkers compofed of 
triangular hairs, thinly fcattered: noftrils oval, divided by a feptum :- 
lips thick ; their infide red, and ferrated.. 
* The French generic name for the Seal is Loup Marin, and the Spanifh, Lobo Maz- 
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78. Rupgon. 
79. URsINneE, 
