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brown : the body is thinly fcattered with hair, and 
the fkin is thick and wrinkled. The fhape of the 
Walrus is extremely uncouth; it is very thick in 
the middle, and gradually lefiens towards the tail, 
which is very fhort: the head is remarkably Ihort 
and round ; the lips very thick, and the vibriflae 
or whifkers confift of tranfparent briftles as thick 
as ftraws. In the upper jaw are two very long, 
large, acuminated tulks, pointing downwards. 
The Walrus grows to the length of feveral feet, 
and has fometimes been found not far Ihort of twenty 
feet in length. 
Of animals whofe habitations and retreats are fo 
far removed from the general haunts of mankind, 
we mull not expedt to obtain that exadt knowledge 
with refpedt to their ways of life which creatures 
of a more accellible nature permit us to difcover. 
Innumerable ftratagems, fays an elegant writer, are 
adled in the gloomy wildernefs and in the great 
deep, which muft for ever elude human inveftiga- 
tion. All that is known of the general habits of the 
Walrus is derived from the accounts of navigators 
and others who have obferved them during their 
temporary abodes either on the floating ifiands of 
ice in the northern ocean, or on the frozen coafls 
of the ardtic regions. They are gregarious animals,- 
and fometimes affemble in multitudes on the coafts 
to fleep. They are of a very pugnacious difpofition, 
and with their enormous teeth inflidl the moll 
grievous wounds on each other during their con- 
tefts. Their voice is a loud roar. They are pof- 
feflfed 
