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THE SEA OTTER. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Six CUTTING TEETH and two canine in each jaw. 



Five TOES on each foot ; each toe connefted by a ftrong web. 



Pennant. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Sable Otter with tail about four times flaorter than the body. 



Sea Otter. 



Penti. Hijl. ^adr. p. i^S^' 



THE Lutra?, or Otters, of which fome fpecies inhabit frefh waters and 

 others the fea, are remarkable for the firft or beginning approach in 

 point of external figure amongft quadrupeds to the animals of the fifhy tribe, 

 which is more nearly approached to by the Beaver ; ftill more by the Seal, 

 and extremely fo by the genus Trichechusj till in the Trichcchus Manatus, 

 or round-tailed Manati, the outline of a quadruped is almofl: obliterated, and 

 at length is quite loft in the Cetaceous tribe, which have fo much the general 

 habit or appearance of fiflies, that by many of the older writers on natural 

 hiftory they have been clalTcd as fuch. 



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