THE SEAL. 



Generic Characters. 

 Cutting teeth, and two canine teeth in each jaw. 

 Five palmated toes on each foot. 



Body thick at the lhoulders, but tapering towards the tail, 



Synonims. 

 Vittjlus Oceani, Rondeletii, 453. 458. 



Phoca, Gefner Fife. 830. Klein Quad. 93. Brijfon Quad. 162. 



Seal, Pennant Hift. Quad. vol. ii. p. 270. 



Phoca vitulina, Linn. Syji. 50. 



Kassigiak, Crantz Hift. Greenl. i. 123. 



Le Phoque, de Buffon, xiii. 333. tab. xlv. Schreber, exxxiv. 



Le Veau Marin, ou Loup de Mer, Belon Poijfons, 25. 



Phoca sive Vitulus Marinus, Rail Syn. Quad. \8Q. 



THE object of our prefent contemplation has been found, with lome 

 variety, in almoft every quarter of the globe; particularly towards the north 

 and fouth ; near the Arctic Circle, and the lower parts of America in both 

 oceans; near the fouthern extremity of Terra del Fuego, and among the 

 floating ice, as low as fouth lat. Go deg. 21 min. It is alfo an inhabitant of 

 the Cafpian Sea, and of the frelh water lakes, Baikal and Oron. 



Its body, which is covered with fhort, fmooth hair, commonly meafures 

 from five to fix feet in length : its head and nofe are flat, with full black eyes, 

 large whifkers, oblong noftrils, and a forked tongue. Its upper jaw contains 

 two canine, and fix cutting teeth; and its lower jaw has two of the former, 

 and four of the latter. Each of its feet is furnilhed with five toes, armed 



