XIX. SEAL. 
36. GREAT. 
SE AL 1) Gussey 
Div. UL. 
PINNATED QUADRUPEDS, 
With fin-like feet : fore legs buried deep in ihe 
{kin: hind legs pointing quite backwards. 
Cutting teeth and two canine in each jaw. 
Five palmated toes on each foot. 
Body thick at the fhoulders, tapering towards the 
tail. | 
Sea calf, Ph. Yranf. ix. 74. Utfuk? Crantz Greenl. i. 
Tab 
Dae 125. 
Le grand Phoque, de Buffon, Great feal, Syz. guad. No. 
Xill. 345. 266. 
SPECIES not very uncommon on the coaft 
of Scotland, particularly about the rock Hifkyr, 
one of the weltern ifles, which grows to the length 
of twelve feet. 
A young one of this fpecies was fome years ago 
fhewen in London: notwithftanding it was fo young 
as to have fcarce any teeth, yet it was feven feet 
and a half long. 
In my voyage among the Hebrides I frequently 
heard 

