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to be our animals, efpecially as we can fix on no more convenient 
place for their winter quarters. They arrive along the fhores of the 
Kurili iflands, and part of thofe of Kamé/chatka, from the fouth. They 
Jand and inhabit only the weftern fide of Bering’s ifle, which faces 
Kamtfchetka ; and when they return in September, their route is due 
fouth, pointing towards the difcoveries of Uriel. Had they mi- 
grated from the fouth-ealt as well as the fouth-weft, every ifle, and 
every fide of every iffe, would have been filled with them; nor fhould 
we have found (as we do) fuch a conftant and local refidence. 
Before I quit this article I muft obferve, that there feems to be 
in the feas of fe/o Gafimo another fpecies of Seal, perhaps our little 
Seal, N° 386. Hit. Quad. The account indeed is but obfcure, 
which I muft give as related by Charlevoix in his compilations re- 
{petting that ifland. <« The natives,’’ fays he, ‘‘ make ufe of an oil 
«© to drink, drawn from a fort of fifth, a fmall hairy creature with 
« four feet.” If this account is true, it ferves to point out the far- 
theft known refidence of this genus, on this fide of the northern he- 
mifphere. 
Finally, the Urfine Seals are found in the fouthern hemifphere, 
even from under the line, in the ifle of Gallipagos +, to New Geergiat, 
in fouth latitude 54. 15. and weft longitude 37. 15. In the interme- 
diate parts, they are met with in New Zeland ||, in the ifle of Fuan 
Fernandez, and its neighbor Maffa Fuera, and probably along the 
coafts of Chili to Terra del Fuego, and Staten Land. In fuan Fer- 
nandez, Staten Land, and new Georgia], they fwarm; as they do at 
the northern extremity of this vaft ocean. Thofe of the fouthern 
hemifphere have alfo their feafons of migration. Alexander Selkirk, 
who paffed three lonely years on the ifle of Fuau Fernandez, remarks 
+ Woodes Rogers’s voy. 265. He fays that they are neither fo numerous there, nor is 
their fur fo fine as thofe on Fuan Fernandex, which is faid to be extremely foft and 
delicate. 
t Cook’s voy. ii. 213. ll Cook, i. 72. 86. Forfeer’s OL/. 189. q Anfon’s 
woy. 122. Cook, li. 194. 213. 
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