34§ 
SEAL. 
The hair is long and rough ; beneath which is a 
foft down, of a bay color: on the neck of the old 
males the hair is ere6l, and a little longer than the 
reft. The general color of thefe animals is black, 
but the hairs of the old ones are tipt with grey. The 
females are cinereous. The fkins of the young, cut 
out of the bellies of their dams, are very ufeful for 
cloathing, and coft about 3s. 4d. each ; the fkin of 
an old one, 4 s. 
The fat and flefh of the old males is very nau- 
feous ; but the flefh of the females refembles lamb* 
and the young ones roafled are as good as fucking 
pigs. 
A72XEONINE. Sea Lion, Dampiers r voy. I. <50. exped. 60. 
IV. 15. Roger s voy. 136. Anfons Phoca leonina. Ph. capite anticc 
*voy. 122. criftato, Lin.JyJl. 55. 
Leo marinus ruffis Siwutcha, Le Lion marin, Brtjfon quad. 167. 
Sieller No<v. Com. Petrop. 11 . 361. de Buffon, xiii. 351. 
Hift. Kamtjchatka , 120. Muller's 
S. (the male) with an arched projedting fnout, hang¬ 
ing five or fix inches below the lower jaw: the feet 
fhort and dufky; five toes on each, furnifhed with 
nails: the hind feet have the appearance of great 
laciniated fins : large eyes : great whifkers : hair on 
the body fhort, and of a dun color; that on the 
neck a little longer: the fkin very thick : length of 
an old male twenty feet 3 greatefl circumference, 
fifteen. 
Female . Nofe blunt, tuberous at the top: noftrils 
wide : mouth breaking very little into the jaws ; 
two fmall cutting teeth below, two fmall and two 
larger 
