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ORGANIC BODIES. 



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KINGDOM 



moil quadrupeds on the globe, except the elephant and rhino- animal 

 ceros. But two of them, which undoubtedly are diftindl fpe- 

 cies, can hardly be defined, unlefs by the colour and menfural 



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difference. Ovit of thefe is the urfine feal, the other the jubated 



This laft is mentioned, and defcribed by the great zoologifl, 



feal. 



the late M. Steller, in his account of the animals of Beering's iil 

 near Kamtchatka : there is alfo a tolerably good account 



of th 



animal in Don Pernetty's voyage to the Malouines or Falkland liles: 



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they both call it the fea lion; a name given to it with the greatefl juflice, 

 as its anteriors bear a great refemblance to the lion^ which its fhaggy 

 mane and tawny colour helps to ftrengthen, while Lord Anfon's 

 fea lion with its wrinkled nofe, has not the leaft iimilarity with it. 

 As there is not one animal entirely new,, among the eight qua- 



drupeds of the South S 



may feem to indicate that this clafs 



eady more compleat than is generally fuppofed 



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what 



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have already obferved in regard to pi 



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holds good equally 



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animal kingdom : for never were fmall iflands known to abound 

 v/ith a great variety of quadrupeds. It is from the interior parts of 

 Africa, India, and per^iaps to^ .Df New-Holland, that 

 exped thofe fupplies to the fcitnce, whenever the 



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muft 



munmcence 



of 



princes fliall enable the naturaliits, ever re 



ady to undergo fatigue 



and hardfhips, for the fake of difcovery, to fearch the hidden trea 

 fures of thofe vail continents, ' 



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