166 GREAT SEAL. Class L 



Div. III. PINNATED. 



iTH fin-like feet; fore legs buried deep in 

 the skin ; hind legs pointing quite back- 

 wards. 



GENUS XIX. SEAL. 



Teeth in the upper jav/, six, pointed ; in the 

 lower jaw, four, rather blunt. 



Toes five palmated on each foot. 



Body thick at the shoulders, tapering towards 

 the tail. 



56". Great. Sea calf. Ph. Trans, ix. 74. Utsuk? Crantz Greenl. i. 



Tal. 5. 125. 



Le grand Phoqiie, Dc Btilfo'i, Great seal. Hist. quad. ii. 



Tom. xiii. 345. Xo. 478. p. 277. -^rd- 



Phoca barbata. Gm. Lin. 65. Zool. i. 185. 



A SPECIES not very uncommon on the coast 

 of Scotland, particularly about the rock Hiskyr, 

 one of the western isles, where it grows to the 

 length of twelve feet. One was some years ago 

 shewn in London, and notwithstanding it was 



