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Gesner, in his Icones, 1560 (p. 178), gives another figure more 
like a Seal, and with the teeth in the upper jaw; but it is repre- 
(Reduced two-thirds.) 
sented as having four feet, with claws like a Cat’s, the fore legs 
being furnished with short wings at their junction with the body ; 
and the body ends in a broad fan-like tail, similar to the hinder ex- 
tremities of the Seal. This figure is copied in Jonston’s ‘ Pisces,’ 
t. 44, in 1657. 
Fig. 6. Sea Horse. 1609. 
In ‘The Three Voyages to the North in the year 1609,’ reprinted 
by the Hakluyt Society, a plate shows a “true portraiture of our 
boat, and how we nearly got into trouble with the sea horses.’ This 
animal is represented like a Seal, with the teeth in its upper jaw, 
but the back is arched, and the belly a considerable distance from 
the ice, on which it is walking. Another very rough seal-like figure 
Fig. 7. Wall-Ross. Marten’s Spitzbergen, &c. 1675, t. P. fig. 0. 
(Reduced three-tenths.) 
is given in Marten’s ‘Spitzbergen in 1675, tab. P. fig. 6. Buffon, 
