Or OUA DKUFEDS. 
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WALRUS. 
This animal externally resembles the seal, 
but is stronger and much larger. Like the 
seal, it has five toes to each paw, but its 
claws are shorter, and its head thicker, and 
rounder; its skin is thick, and covered with 
very short hair; its upper jaw is armed 
with two teeth, which sometimes exceed 
twenty-four inches in length. These tusks, 
which are hollow at the root, become larger 
as tlie animal grows older. There are a 
great number of these animals towards 
Spitsbergen, where they are hunted, and the 
profit that is derived from their tusks and 
fat, fully repays the trouble; for the oil is 
nearly of an equal value with that produced 
from the whale. They are said to feed upon 
die shell-fish which are at the bottom of the 
sea, and to grub them up with their tusks.. 
