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into the water ; and, in fhort, dretches out his neck 
to kifs his keeper, as often, and as long, as required. 
Thefe are marks of a tradfablenels, which one could 
hardly exped: from animals, whofe mein and afpect 
promife little, and indeed whofe places of abode, be 
ing for the mod; part inacceffible, prevent their being 
familiarized to any commerce with men, except by 
mere chance. 
The teeth are very well preferved in the fkin of 
the manati in the mufaeum : they are 1 6 in the upper, 
and 14 in the under jaw j and of thefe, 4 are between 
the canine teeth of the upper, and 2 between thofe 
of the under jaw. They are all conical from the 
gums j the canine teeth are two in each jaw ; being 
an inch and half long each, and of the fame form 
with the reft ; and they all bend a little backwards 
by a fmall curve in themfelves. Nor have the very 
back teeth of all the lead: refemblance to the molar es 
of other animals. 
The walrus, or mors, is another fpecies of phoca, 
and differs very little in diape and parts from the 
other fpecies of this genus ; except that the two ca- 
nine teeth of the upper jaw are of a prodigious fize, 
like the great teeth of an elephant. 
There are fome fpecies of this ge?ius of the phoca, 
which never grow to above a foot long ; and there 
are of all fizes at full growth from thefe to the ma- 
nati and walrus. The fkins of every fpecies have 
fhort hair, and their colours are variegated from the 
draw- colour and yellow to the deeped brown and 
black. They are fometimes regularly brindled, 
fometimes curioufly fpotted ; fometimes in brown 
clouds upon a yellow ground, like that of a pied 
horfe j and fometimes the brown or black occupies 
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