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exhibited in the book, what are counted fea-lions, 
are manati's. 
It will be well to obferve, that, in the figure of 
the male, which, Mr. Walter fays, was taken from 
the life, there is no appearance of a penis : which 
would, in fome meafure, fupport our opinion of the 
fex of the feal in town. For 1 fhould imagine, that, if 
a penis was to be feen, the draught’s-man would fcarce 
have omitted fo remarkable a part. 
The learned Linnasus ranks this genus of animals 
with thofe of his fecond order of quadrupeds ; and 
indeed with great propriety, however injudicious it 
may lately have been thought : for, altho’ none of 
this tribe can ufe the pofterior extremities to raife 
themfelves up, or Hand upon them, as upon legs and 
feet ; yet they l'wim and guide themfelves in the wa- 
ter with them ; for which they claim the title of 
palmipedes , or webbed feet ; for they have no fimi- 
larity with fins. 
If it be objected, that thefe animals would come 
more naturally under his clafs of amphibia j we may 
aflfert, that he had two very good motives for rank- 
ing them with quadrupeds. Firfl, he had our great 
Ray for his director, who has himfelf done the fame 
thing : and, fecondly, he found, that, altho’ thefe 
creatures are really amphibious, yet, the command- 
ing characters, by which lie has, with great fagacity, 
difiinguifhed his clafies, prevail here to give them a 
place rather among the quadrupeds than the am- 
great natural ill: divides the animal kingdom 
into fix dalles, and each clafs into fix orders. Each 
order is again divided into different genera , and each 
genus 
