MANATL 
GENERIC CHARACTER* 
Pinniform fore legs, hind parts ending in a tail horizontally 
flat. 
Two teats between the legs. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Tricechus borealis* . T. nudus, pedibus nec digitis Dec un~ 
guibus instructis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Grnel. l.p. 6 l. 
Without hair j the feet have neither 
toes nor nails. 
Whale-tailed Manati. Penn. Hist. Quadr. 1 . p. 292 . n. 48p, 
Arct. Zool. 1 . p. 177. n. 81. 
These animals are only allied to the quadrupeds 
by the two fore feet or hands ; the hinder part of 
the body being completely cetaceous, or like that 
of the whale : they can hardly be called amphibious, 
as they never entirely leave the water, but frequent 
the edges of the shores to feed on the weeds that 
grow there* They sometimes are found of an ama^ 
zing size, as poor Steller can testify ; who, during 
the sad ten months which he unwillingly passed on 
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