102 SEALS, WALRUSES, AND WHALES. 
“<I know not whether it happens from the 
force of contrast upon the imagination of the 
beholders, or from an unperceived compari- 
son made between the warm-blooded aquatic 
animals, and the different nature of the general 
inhabitants of the waters, or from a positive 
superiority in this respect, but all the Mam- 
malia of the Northern shores and seas are 
celebrated for the strength and tenderness of 
their attachments ; sometimes of the parent 
to the young, sometimes of the young to the 
parent, sometimes of the male and female to 
each other, and, more than all, of each indi- 
vidual to the rest! The catalogue of these 
warm-hearted creatures of a cold region, in- 
cludes the Bears, the Seals, the Walruses, the 
Sea-Horses, and the Manaties, or Sea-Cows. 
In the Whales, the Cachalots, the Gram- 
puses, the Dolphins, the Porpoises, though 
the same virtues are probably inherent, the © 
forms of the animals themselves, and the ele- 
ment which they exclusively inhabit, make 
them less discoverable to the human eye; 
and, so universally diffused are the traits of 
animal character, of the kind now under our 
contemplation, that it would be needful to 
