URSINE SEAL. 
That indefatigable and judicious naturalist;^ 
Steller, first gave us an accurate description df 
what are denominated the Sea Lion, the Sea 
Bear, and the Manati. These three marine 
animals, it is remarked by Pennant, keep a 
particular situation, and seem divided between 
the North-East of Asia, and the North-l^^est 
of America, in the narrow seas between tho?e 
vast continents : they inhabit, from June to 
September, the isles that are scattered in the 
seas between Kamtschatka and America, in 
order to breed in safety, but never land on 
Kamtschatka. Steller, and his companions, in 
the Russian expedition of 1742, are supposed 
to have been the first Europeans who had ever 
disturbed them in these retreats ; which they 
quit in September, greatly em.aciated. Some 
return to the Asiatic, and others to the Ame- 
rican shores ; but, like the Sea Otters, they are 
confined, in those seas, between the latitudes of 
fifty and fifty-six degrees. They are also very 
common in New Zealand ; and are again found 
about Staten Island, the Frozen Island of New 
Georgiaj 
