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larger above; two canine teeth, remote from the 
preceding *, five grinders in each jaw ; all the teeth 
conic : eyes oblique and fmall: auricles none: fore 
legs twenty inches long : toes furnifhed with flat ob¬ 
long nails: hind parts, inflead of legs, divided into 
two great bifurcated fins: no tail: the whole covered 
with fhort mil-colored hair : length, from nofe to 
the end of the fins, four.yards : greatefl circum¬ 
ference two yards and a half *. 
Inhabits the feas between Kamtfchatka and A?ne~ 
rica \ in the laft, not higher than lat . 56 N. are not 
found again nearer than the ifle of Juan Fernandez , 
S. lat . 33—40. Are feen in great numbers, in June 
and July , the breeding feafon, on the iflands, which 
they refort to for the purpofe of fuckling their 
young on fhore. Couple in Augujl and September^ and 
bring two at a time. The male fhews little attach¬ 
ment to its young, but the female is exceffively fond 
of it: the former will j- fuffer it to be killed before 
his face without fhewing any refentment. Towards 
.evening, both male and female fwim a little way to 
fea, the laft with the young on its back, which the 
male will pufh off, as if to teach it to fwim. 
They arrive on the breeding iflands very fat and 
full of blood: when they are in motion they feem 
like a great fkin full of oil, from the tremulous 
movement of the blubber, which has been found to 
be a foot thick. The Spaniards therefore call them 
* Defcribed from a well-preferved fpecimen in the Mufeum of 
the Royal Society. 
f The female, during that time, is very fierce. One of Lord 
Anfons iailors was killed by the enraged dam of a whelp he had 
robbed her of. Anfons. vqj* 124. 
Lobes 
