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M A N A T L 
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MANATL 
273<Manati. 
Pinniform fore-ldgs : hind parts ending in a tail, 
horizontally flat. 
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Manati Hernandez Mex. 323 De Le Lamentin, Briffon quad. 164. 
Laet. 6. de Bujgon, xiii. 277. tab. 57. 
Manatus Rohdefeiius , 490. Gefner Trichechus^rtaA gen. 79. 
Fife. 213. Clusexot. 132. AzzzV )oq. 
_/y«. 193. Klein quad. 94. Trichechus manatus, Lin. fyji . 
Steller Nov. Com. Petr op. II. 294. 49, 
This animal, in nature, fo nearly approaches the 
cetaceous tribe, that it is- meerly in conformity to 
the fyfiematic writers, that I continue it in this 
clafs : it fcarce deferves the name of a biped ; what 
are called feet are little more than pedtoral fins.; 
they ferve only for fwimming; they are never ufed 
to aftift the animal in walking, or landing; for it 
never goes afhore, nor ever attempts to climb the 
rocks, like the walrus and feaL It brings forth in 
the water, and, like the whale, fuckles its young in 
that element: like the whale, it has no voice ; and 
like that animal, has an horizontal broad tail, with¬ 
out even the rudiments of hind feet. 
Inhabits the fhores of Kamtfchatka , and of the 
oppofite coaft of America , and of the intervening 
iflands. Is found again on that of Mindanao *, one 
of the Philippine ifiands, and on the coaft of New 
Holland f j on that of the ifle of France J, and on 
that of Senegal § ; on the Mofquito fhore, in the river 
* Dampler’s vey.l. 321. 
f The fame, 33. 
X Voy.delaCaille , 229. 
$ Adanfon’s voy. 259., . 
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