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cumference live feet; near the tail, twenty inches. 
The weight Soolb. The nofe proje£ts like that of a 
pug dog, but the head rifes fuddenly : noftrils oval, 
and divided by a feptum : the lips thick ; their infide 
red and ferrated: whilkers long and white. 
The teeth lock into each other when the month 
is clofed: in the upper jaw are four cutting teeth, 
each bifurcated ; on both fides is a fmall fharp ca¬ 
nine tooth bending inwards •, near that another, 
larger: the grinders referable canine teeth, and are 
fix in number in each jaw : in the lower jaw are alfo 
four cutting teeth and two canine: but only four 
grinders in each jaw: in all, thirty-fix teeth. 
Tongue bifid: eyes large and prominent: iris 
black, pupil fmaragdine: the eyes may be covered 
at pleafure with a flefhy membrane : the ears are 
fmall, iharp-pointed j hairy without, fmooth and 
poiifhed within. 
The length of the fore-legs is twenty-four inches, 
like thofe of other quadrupeds, not immerfed in 
the body like thofe of feals : the feet are formed, 
with toes as thofe of other animals, but are covered 
with a naked ikin, fo that externally they feem a 
fhapelefs mafs, and have only the rudiments of nails 
to five latent toes : the hind legs are twenty-two 
inches long, are fixed to the body quite behind, like 
thofe of feals, but are capable of being brought 
forward, fo that the animal makes ufe of them to 
fcratch its head: thefe feet are divided into five toes, 
each divided by a great web, and are a foot broad: 
the tail is only two inches long. 
The 
