138 §; Bn An ke Crass I. 
feet, when extended, was three inches and a half: 
the hind legs were placed in fuch a manner, as to 
point directly backwards; and were ten inches 
Jong: each hind foot, when extended, was nine 
inches and a half broad: every foot was divided 
into five toes; and each of thofe connected by a 
ftrong and broad web, covered on both fides with 
fhort hair. | 
The toes were furnifhed with ftrong claws, well 
adapted to affift the animal in climbing the rocks it 
baiked on: the claws on the hind feet were about 
an inch long, flender, and ftrait; except at the 
ends, which were a little incurvated. 
The circumference of the body in the thickeft 
part, which was near the fhoulders, was one foot 
ten inches; but near the hind lees, where it was 
narroweft, it meafured only twelve inches. 
The head and nofe were broad and flat, like thofe 
of the otter; the neck fhort and thick; the eyes 
large and black; it had no external ears, but in 
lieu of them, two fmall orifices: the noftrils were 
oblong: on each fide the nofe were feveral long 
{tiff hairs; and above each eye, were a few of the 
fame kind. 
Toncue. The form of the tongue of this animal is fo fin- 
cular, that were other notes wanting, that alone 
would diitinguifh it from all other quadrupeds; 
being forked, or flit at the end. 
The cutting teeth are fingular in refpect to their 
number, being fix in the upper jaw, and only four 
in 
