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fall of revenge and fury in defending their young ; 
for that one day a failor being carelefly employ'd 
in fkinning a young fea-lion, the female, who was 
its parent, ftole upon him, and laid hold on his 
head, wounding him with her teeth in fo defpe- 
rate a manner, that he died in a few days. 
This hiftory may be applicable to other fpecies of 
phocez ; and, by this defeription, as well as the figures 
exhibited 
from the following note, fent me by the reverend Dr. Jeremiah 
Milles. 
SIR, 
T HE dean of Exeter defired me to tranferibe the two follow- 
ing notes from the 6th volume of Iceland's Colleelanea , and 
to fend you them. 
Page r. in the account of the quantity of provifions purchafed 
for the enthronization-feaft: of archbifbop Neville, there is this 
article, 
Porpofes and Seals XII. 
and yet, in the bills of fare, which were added afterwards, I find 
not the leaft mention either of porpofe or feal, -ferved up or arefled 
in any fhape. 
So likewife, in page 31 of the fame volume, where is an account 
of the provitions, and their prices, which were bought for arch- 
bifhop Warham’s enthronization-feaft, there is an article, 
De Seales & Porpojf. prec. in grofs 26 s. 8 d. 
and yet the preceding bil : s of fare do not mention either of thefe 
fifties, as ferved up at any of the tables of the feaft. Were they 
not bought for the dinner of the fervants, and other in r erior of- 
ficers ; whofe bills of fare are not particularly mention’d in this, 
account ? 
If thefe notices are of any ufe to you, I {hall be very glad to 
have communicated them} and am, Sir, 
Grofvenor-ftreet, Your very humble fervant, 
Feb. 15. 1750. 
Jer. Milles, 
