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from the neceflity of feeding upon the dry and 
too uniform provifions of the fhip. 
To this digreflion, which I confider as In^ 
terefting, I fhall add a few words refpeding 
the fea lion and the fea calf. They have 
been mentioned by a multitude of authors 
under denominations fo different, and with 
defcriptlons fo erroneous, that nothing can 
indeed be comprehended from them. With 
regard to the firft of thefe monfters, I can 
pnly fay, that I never obferved any of thofe 
trunks half a foot in length, v/nich, as we 
are affured, hang from the upper jaw of the 
male. In refpedt to the fecond, which the 
Dutch have thus named, it is the fame animal 
as that fhewn three or four years ago in one 
of the Ihops of the Palais-Royal^ and which 
the people who exhibited it called a fea tyger ; 
while another of the fame fpecies was £hewn,a 
few doors diftant, under a different name. It 
w^as thus that, fifteen years ago, the fimple 
credulous Parifians, who would not have gone 
a fmgle flep to fee a camel, ran in crowds to 
the fair of St. Germain, to flare with wonder 
at the gangaUy which was nothing elfe but a 
camel, thus named by an impoftor. Such 
deceptions 
