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distance from the sea and thus tamed, was 
kept in a vessel full of salt and water, which 
it would leave for the purpose of crawling 
about the house, and even sometimes ap- 
proaching the fire. Though taken out to sea 
every day and thrown in from a boat, it would 
invariably swim after its master, and allow 
itself to be retaken without making any at- 
tempt to escape. In this way it lived for 
some time, and died in consequence of ill 
usage. 
THE BAT. 
As the seal appears to form the connecting 
link between the quadrupeds dwelling on the 
earth and the inhabitants of the deep, so the 
bat seems to unite them with the tribes that 
wing the air. In general figure the bat re- 
sembles the mouse ; but it is furnished with 
wings, which the animal can stretch when it 
