. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. AMPHIBIOUS CArvXIYOEA. 549 of tliat animal. Tliey live upon fish, always eat in the water, and can close then- nostrils when they dive, by means of a kind of valve. Seals exist in great numbers in the Arctic Seas, and are tlie principal support of the Greenlanders and Esquimaux of Labrador, who live on their flesh, and clothe themselves, make their summer huts, and build their boats with their skins. The chase of the Seal is their principal business, and success in this pursuit forms at once their fortune and their glory. The M
. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. AMPHIBIOUS CArvXIYOEA. 549 of tliat animal. Tliey live upon fish, always eat in the water, and can close then- nostrils when they dive, by means of a kind of valve. Seals exist in great numbers in the Arctic Seas, and are tlie principal support of the Greenlanders and Esquimaux of Labrador, who live on their flesh, and clothe themselves, make their summer huts, and build their boats with their skins. The chase of the Seal is their principal business, and success in this pursuit forms at once their fortune and their glory. The Morses, or Walrus (Trichecuse*), resemble the Seals in the limits and general form of their body, but differ much in the si iape of their liead and teeth. Their lower juw is without eitlier incisors or canines, but two enormous canine teetii or rather tusks grow fi-om the upper *)T} iv -. Fig. 4:14.—harp seal and -walkus. jaw and project downwards. These remarkable tusks are sometimes two feet in length, and of proportionate thickness; tlieir chief use seems to be to enable the animal to detach from the ground the substances upon wliicli he feeds, and to assist him in climbing out of the water on to the rocks where he sleeps. The Walrus inhabits the icy seas, it surpasses the largest ox in the thickness of its body, which is covered with a smooth and yellowish hair, and attains even to twenty feet in length. Its oil is in great request, and the ivory of its tusks, which is much employed in the arts. * epi^, rpixos, thrix, trichos, liair—from the long wiry hair of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880. London : Society for Promoting Knowledge
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