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germs again has its different fpecies. The phoca then 
is the fixth genus under the fecond order of the qua - 
drupedia ; which order is that he calls ferce. It is 
very neceffary to give this detail, in this place, of his 
glorious method, that we may do juftice to fo great 
a man, and alfo introduce the commanding charac- 
terises by which animals fall naturally in the places 
which he allots them, as far only as it relates to this 
tribe under confideration. 
To the clafs of quadrupedia he gives thefe general 
characters : 
Quadrupedia 
r Corpus pilofum — pedes qnatuor . 
{ Feminee e vivipara i laftijera. 
To the fecon 1 order of this clafs, the jer£. 
^ f Dentes primores utrinque /ex. 
Fera^ r . . , . 2 J 
C camm longiores . 
To the fixth genus of th zfera, the phoca. 
f Dentes primores fuperiores fex, inferior es 4.. 
Phoca < Pedes 5. 5. palmati natatorii. 
I Auric alee nulla. 
Under thefe characters he ranks but two general 
fpecies : 
1 . Phoca dentibus caninis t eft is — Seehund. - 
2. Phoca dentibus caninis exjirtis. — Walrus. 
The different fpecies of the former, whofe canine 
teeth are hid by the lips, are more numerous than 
thofe, whofe fupet ior canine teeth, as thofe of the 
walrus , project from the lips, and are, from their 
variations 
