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GENUS XI. The SEAL. 
SPECIES I. The SEAL. 
Seal, Soile, or Sea-calf] Phoca, 
feu vitulus marinus. Ran Jyn. 
quad. 189. 
Sea-calf] Phil, tranfacl. N 0 469. 
Tab. 1. 
Smith's Kerry, 84, 364. 
Borlafe Cormv. 284 . 
Worm. muf. 289. 
Horr. Icel. 88. 
Pont op. Norzv. 2. 125. 
Brijfon quad. 230. 
Phoca vitulina. Lin. Jyft. 38. 
Phoca. Klein quad. 93. 
Phoca dentibus caninis te&is. 
Faun.fuec. it. 
Britijh , Moelrhon. 
French , Veau marin 
Italian , Vechiomarino 
Spanijhy Lobo marino 
NAMES 
Portug. 
German , Meer wolff, Meer hund 
Dutch. Zee kalf 
Swedijh , Sial 
H E common length of the feals 
taken on the Britijh coafts, is from 
five to fix feet*. 
The fubje& that we toke our defeription 
from, was a young one , fo allowance muft be 
made for the proportions of the meafure- 
ments of thofe that have attained their full 
fize. Its length from the end of the nofe, to 
the end of the hind feet, was two feet nine 
inches : to the end of the tail, two feet three 
inches : the head was feven inches long : the 
tail two and a half: the fore legs were deeply 
immerfed in the fkin of the body: what ap¬ 
peared out, was only eight inches long : the 
breadth of the fore feet, when extended, was 
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three inches and a half: the hind legs were 
placed in fuch a manner as to point diredfcly 
backwards : and were ten inches long : each 
hind foot, when extended,’ was nine inches 
* Sir R. Sibbald fays, that on the coaft of Angus , fome are found 
as large as oxen. 
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and a half broad : every foot was divided in¬ 
to five toes y and each of thole connected by 
a ftrong and broad web, covered on both fides 
with Ihort hair. 
The toes were furnilhed with ftrong claws, 
well adapted to affift the animal in climbing 
the rocks it balked on : the claws on the hind 
feet were about an inch long, llender, and 
ftrait y except at the ends, which were a lit*? 
tie incurvated. 
The circumference of the body in the 
thickeft part, which was near the Ihoulders, 
was one foot ten inches ; but near the hind 
legs, where it was narroweft, it meafured on¬ 
ly twelve inches. 
The head and nofe were broad and flat, 
like thofe of the otter; the neck Ihort and 
thick 5 the eyes large and black , it had no 
exter- 
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