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seal: 
There is a blackilh variety, which they fay is a young 
harp, called Bedlemer 
Le petit Phoque de Buffon, xiii. 341. tab. liii. 27O.L1TTLI 
S. with the four middle cutting teeth of the upper 
jaw bifurcated ; the two middle of the lower jaw 
flightly trifurcated : a rudiment of an ear : the webs 
of the feet extending far beyond the toes and nails : 
hair foft, fmooth, and longer than in the common 
Seal: color dulky on the head and back *, beneath, 
brownifh : length, from two to three feet, 
Inhabits the fea near the ifle of Juan Fernandez -f; 
and our feal-hunters affirm, that they often obferve, 
on the coalt of Newfoundland , a fmall fpecies not 
exceeding two feet, or two feet and a half, in length. 
M. deBuffon fays the fpecimen in the cabinet of the 
French King came from India *, but from the autho¬ 
rity of Dampler , and of modern voyagers to the 
Eaft Indies , who have afFured me they never faw any 
feals J there, I fufped he was impofed on. 
* In the lake Baikal is a large kind with yellow hair and a large 
chefnut-colored mark on the hind part of the back, covering almofi: 
a third part of the body. Perhaps a variety of this fpecies. 
f Ulloa fays the firft fpecies of jfeal found near that ifle is not above 
a yard long, II. 226. 
% A gentleman, the moll curious and greateft navigator of the 
Indian feas now living, informed me, that he not only never met 
with any feals in thole feas, but even none nearer than the ides of 
Gallopagosy a little north of the line, on the coalt of America t 
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