EEO Nid Nee S ENA L: 
The weight of a large male beaft is fixteen hundred pounds. 
Length of the males is fometimes fourteen, or even eighteen feet *. 
The females are very difproportionably leffer, not exceeding eight 
feet. 
Inhabits the eaftern coafts of Kamt/chatkz, from cape Kronozki as 
low as cape Lapatka and the Kurili iflands, and even as far as 
Mat/mai, which probably is the fame with Ye/o Gafima. Near Mat/- 
mai Captain Spanderg obferved a certain ifland of a moft picturefque 
form, bordered with rocks refembling buildings, and fwarming with 
thefe animals, to which he gave the name of the Palace of rhe Sea 
Lions +. Like the Urfine Seals, they are not found on the weftern 
fide of the peninfula. They abound, in the months of Yune, Fuly, 
Auguft, and September, on Bering’s ifland, which they inhabit for the 
fake of quiet parturition and fuckling their young.  Ste//er alfo 
faw them in abundance in Fw/y on the coafts of America. 
They do not migrate like the former; but only change the place 
of refidence, having winter and fummer ftations {. They live chiefly 
on rocky fhores, or lofty rocks in the fea, whiclr feem to Have been 
torn away from the: land by the violence of fome earthquake |. 
Thefe they climb, and by their dreadful roaring are of ufe in foge 
weather to warn navigators to avoid deftruction. 
They copulate in the months of duguft and September; go ten 
months, and bring only one at atime. The parents fhew them little 
affection, often tread them to death through carelefsnefs, and will 
fuffer them to be killed before them without concern or refentment. 
The cubs are not fportive, like other young animals, but are almoft 
always afleep. Both male and female take them to fea to learn 
them to fwim ; when. wearied, they will climb on the back of their 
dam ; but the male often pufhes them off, to habituate them to the 
* Narborough, 31. Penrofe Falkland Iffles, 28. Pernetti, voy. Malouines, 240. By his 
confounding the names of this and the Bottle-nofe Seal, Me 288. Hi/t, Quad. he 
led me into a miftake about the length of this. 
+ Defir, Kamt/chatha, 433. } Nov, Com, Petrop. ii. 365. — || Muller's voy. 60. 
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