CARNIVORA. 
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Charlotte Island. It measured four feet four inches 
from the nose to the extremity of the tail. The 
body was compressed, and of nearly the same thick- 
ness throughout. Its circumference was two feet 
four inches and a half. The figures given of the 
cheek-teeth show them to have been very much 
tuberculated, and, like those of the seal, apparently 
adapted for a piscivorous regimen. 
We have, in this animal, a decided link between 
the otters and the seals; and we know that the 
otters are very much assimilated to some other spe- 
cies of the weasels. 
