GREAT SEAL. 
Phoca Barbata. P. capite lanji inauriculato, corpore nigricanie. 
Lin. Syst. Nat, GmeL p. 65 . 
Earless blackish Seal, with smooth head. 
Le grand Phoque. Buff. 13./. 345. 
Great Seal. Pennant ^adr. p. 277. 
This is similar to the common Seal, but grows 
to the length of twelve feet; having been shot in 
the north of Scotland of that size. When so 
young as to have scarce any teeth it is upwards 
of seven feet long; whereas the common Seal is 
at its full growth when it has arrived at the length 
of six feet. It is a native of the northern seas. 
The skin, which is thick and strong, is said to be 
used by the Greenlanders for thongs for their Seal 
fishery. Mr. Pennant supposes this species to be 
the same with the Great Kamischatkan Seal, call- 
ed by the Russians Lachtach, which weighs eight 
hundred pounds, and whose young are of a black 
.colour. 
HOUGH SEAL. 
Phoca Hispida. P. capite la"vi subauriculato, corpore pallide fusco 
pilis surrectis hispido. Lin. Syst. Nat. GmeL p. 64. 
Pale-brown subauriculated Seal, with the head smooth, and the 
body covered with rising bristly hair. 
Rough Seal. Pennant ^adr. p. 2yS. 
This is of a pale brown colour, with rough 
bristly hair, and is a native of the seas about 
