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Genus I. The SEAL. 



Species I. The SEAL: 



.-Le Veau marin,ou loup de Mer. 



Belon 25. PI. 26. 

 /Seal, Seoile, or Sea-calf. Phoca, 

 - feu vitulus marinus. Rait fyn. 

 quad. 189. 

 Sea-calf. Phil. tranfaSt. No. 



469. Tab. I. 

 .SmiiFs Kerry, 84, 364. 

 Morlafes Cornnv. 284. 

 ^Wortn. mu/e, 2Sg. 



Kaffigiak. Crantxi's Bifi. Green!. 



i. 123. 

 .Le Phoque, de Buffon. 

 Horr. Icel. 88. 

 Pontop.Nor'w. W. 125, 

 BriJJon quad. 162. 

 Phoca vjtulina. Lin.fyjl.tfi, 

 Phoca. -Kkin^quad. 93. 

 >Fhoca dentibus .caninis teftis. 



Faun. Suec. 4» 

 rBr^'ZooL 34. 







N A M E S. 





Brit. 



Moelrhon 



Germ. 



Meer wolff, Meer^eiHJ 



Fren. 



Le Veau man'n 



Dut. 



Zee hond 



dial. 



Vechio marino 



Saved. 



Sial 



Span. 



Lobo marino 



Dan. 



Ssl hand * 



TH E common length of the feals taken on the 

 Britijh coaftsj is from five to fix feet *. 

 The fubjedl that we took our defcription from, was 

 a young one •, fo allowance muft be made for the 

 proportions of the meafurements of thofe that have 

 attained their full fize. Its length from the end of 

 the nofe, to the end of the hind feet, was two feet nine 

 inches : to the end of the tail, two feet three inches : 

 the head was feven inches long: the tail two and a 

 'half : the fore legs were deeply immerfed in the fkin 

 of the body ; what appeared out, was only eight 



* Sir R. Siihaid Cays, that On thecoaft of J^gut, f«me are found 

 .^s large as oxen. 



F 4 inches 



