. The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena [microform] : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76. British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; Zoology; Zoologie. A SAy tlic luToic men wlio go forth to do thi' \\iiri< nf Science and Civiliaitioii. Returninji; to the senls, we may remark that, according to a Hcientific authority, tlif angle of weedy rock on whidi ;. plioca iH acfust<inu'<l to rest with his family comes to be regarded oh his property, and no other individuals of his species are
. The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena [microform] : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76. British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; Zoology; Zoologie. A SAy tlic luToic men wlio go forth to do thi' \\iiri< nf Science and Civiliaitioii. Returninji; to the senls, we may remark that, according to a Hcientific authority, tlif angle of weedy rock on whidi ;. plioca iH acfust<inu'<l to rest with his family comes to be regarded oh his property, and no other individuals of his species are entitled to lay claim to it. Altliough in the water thene animals congregate together in numerous herds, and protect and courageously defend one another, yt^t, when tlioy have once einerge<l from their favourite element, they regani themselves on their own space of rock as in a sacred domicile, where no connado has a right to intrude on their domestic tranquillity. Ff any stranger approach this family centre, the chief— or shall we call him the father ?—prepares to repel hy force what he considers an unwarrantahle encroachment; and a terrible combat invariably ensues, which terminates only with the death of the lord of the rock, or the conipulsory retreat of the intruder. But a family never seizes upon a larger tract than it absolutely requires, and ^ lives peaceably with neighbouring families, from which it is seldom separated by a greater intei-val than forty or fifty jiaces. If compelled by necessity, they will even live on amicable terms at much closer quarters. Three or four families will share a rock, a cavern, or an ice-tloe; but each occupies the place allotted to it at the original apportionment, and shuts himself within it, so to speak, nor ever meddles with individuals of another family. Our modern naturalists divide the PhocidsB into two distinct ordtjrs: the Phocw properly so called, which have no external ears, but only an auditory orifice on the surface o
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