ARCTIC WALRUS. 
hind feet are very broad ; each leg is loosely 
articulated ; and the hind legs are generally- 
extended on a line with the body. The tail is 
very short; the penis of the male is long. 
The length of the animal, from nose to tail, 
is sometimes eighteen feet ; and, in the thickest 
part, it is ten or twelve feet round. The tusks 
are a very fine-grained ivory ; delicately white, 
and not readily becoming yellow. They have 
been sometimes seen of the weight of thirty 
pounds each : but teeth of this size are only 
found on the coast of the Icy Sea; where 
the animals are seldom molested, and have 
time to attain their full growth. 
BufFon remarks, that the Walrus, like 
the Elephant, has two large ivory tusks which 
proceed from the upper jaw; and it's head, if 
it had a trunk, would have a great resem- 
blance to that of the Elephant. The Walrus 
not only wants this instrument, which serves 
the Elephant for an arm and hand, but it has 
not the use of it's arms and legs ; which, as 
in the Seals, are inclosed in the skin, the hands 
and feet being alone free. The body is long, 
swelled before, narrow behind, and every 
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