[8] These animals have been found here, lying huddled together, a thousand in a heap.
[9] The altitude of one near the Black Point, south end, was found, by the megameter, to be 1503 yards. Phipps’ Voyages, p. 87.
[10] Fab. Faun. Groenland. edit. 1780, p. 24.
[11] Fabr. loc. cit.
[12] Tam brumali, quam aestivo tempore occurrit extra praedans. Fab. loc. cit.
[13] Hieme etiam barbam albam, ut hircus habet. Fab. de Cerv. Tarand.
[14] Vocem habet triplicem: esurientis ejulando: coire volenti clamando, periclitantis murmurando.
[15] Under this general appellation, I include the seal, walrus or morse, dugon, &c.
[16] Perhaps Pliny has hit the truth, “Parit nunquam geminis plures.” Nat. Hist. lib. 9. § 13.
[17] Sternunt se somno diversæ in littore Phocæ. Georg. lib. 4.