--6 SEA L. ClafsT, 



* Their head In fwimming is always above water, 

 •^ more fo than that of a dog. 



' They fleep on rocks furrounded by the Tea, or on 

 ' the lefs acceflible parts of our clifrs, left dry by the 

 •= ebb of the tide; and if difturbed by any thing, take 



* care to tumble over the rocks into the fea. They 

 ' are extremely watchful, and never fleep long with- 

 ■= out rrjQving ; feldom longer than a minute; then 

 ^ raife their heads, and if they hear or fee nothing 

 ' more than ordinary, lie down again, and fo on, raif- 

 ' ing their heads a little, and reclining them alter- 



* nateiy, in about a minute's time. Nature feems 

 ^ to have given them this precaution, as being un- 

 •^ provided with auricles, or external ears ; and confe- 

 *^ quently not hearing very quick, nor from any great 

 ■^ diiiance/ 



In Sir R. Sihbald's hiftory of Scothjid, we find an 

 account of another fpecies of the feal kind, which is 

 copied from Boethius, The animal he mentions is the 

 fea-horfe, or Morfe : as this vaft creature is found in 

 the Norwegian feas, we think it not improbable but 

 that it may have appeared on the ScoUiJh coafts ; but 

 having no better authority for it, than what is above- 

 mentioned, we dare not give it a place in a Britijh 

 Zoology. The teeth of that animal, are as wiiite and 

 hard as ivory ; but whether the ih^apivTivet 4«*^^*> 

 ivory bits, which Strabo * mentions among the 

 articles of the BritiJJj commerce, were made of them, 

 or the tooth of the Narhwal^ or of fom.e of the toothed 

 wJiales, is not at this time eafy to be determined. 



* SlrabO) Lib, iv. zoo. 



