ROUND-TAILED TRICHECHUS, 
flesh is coarser than beef, and will not soon pu- 
trify : the young ones taste like veal : the skin is 
used for shoes, and for covering the sides of boats. 
The Russians call this animal Morskaia korowa or 
Sea Cow, and Kapustnik or Eater of Herbs. 
ROUND-TAILED TRICHECHUS. 
Trichechus Australis. T. pilosus 't cauda horixoniali loco pedum pos- 
terior urn. 
Hairy Trichechus, with a horizontal tail in place of hind feet. 
Trichechus Australis. Var. and T. Manati. Lin. Syst, Nat. 
Gmel. p. 60. 
Round-tailed Manati. Pennant ^adr, 2. p. 296. 
This species grows to the length of fourteen or 
fifteen feet, and is found in the rivers of Africa; 
particularly in the river Senegal. A complete 
specimen occurs in the Leverian Museum, and 
is about six feet and a half long, and about three 
feet eight inches in circumference in the thickest 
part of the body ; and in the thinnest part or near 
the tail about two feet two inches. 
In this species the lips are thick ; the eyes as 
small as peas; and there are two very small ori- 
fices in the place of ears : in each jaw on each side 
are nine grinding teeth; in all thirty-six : the neck 
is short and thicker than the head : the greatest 
thickness of the body is about the shoulders, from 
whence it gradually tapers to the tail, which is 
horizontal, broad, thickest in the middle, grow- 
ing thinner to the edges, and quite round. The 
