Marine Animals . 
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CHAPTER Y. 
Although whales, seals, and other marine inhabitants 
were always included among fish by writers of 
the Elizabethan period, yet there evidently Ma Sais Am " 
existed in the minds of some authors a mis¬ 
giving as to whether this arrangement was correct. Pious 
Catholics were slow to be persuaded that these aquatic 
mammalia were blood relations of the bear, and resolved 
as long as possible to take the benefit of the doubt. 
Harrison, in his description of England prefixed to 
Holinshed’s Chronicle , decides that under the head of 
sea-fish should be included “ the seale, the dolphin, the 
porpoise, the thirlepoole, whale, and whatsoever is round 
of bodie be it never so great and huge 55 ( Holinshed , vol. i. 
p. 377). Pennant, writing so late as 1791, quite declines 
to accept the modem classification. He admits that they 
have in many respects the structure of land animals, but 
he holds that their want of hair and feet, their fish-like 
form, and their constant residence in the water, are argu¬ 
ments for separating them from this class, and forming 
them into another independent of the rest. 
Captain John Monck, in his account of a voyage to 
Greenland, taken about the year 1600, thus 
describes the Walrus : — Walrus. 
“ The sea horses are very strange creatures, approaching to the big¬ 
ness of a moderate ox, having four legs, the two hindermost being very 
