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Rh this Animal, as an amphibious one, that lives by Turns upon Land and in the Water. Some will have him to be in the Likenes of an Ore white potted, with Hore Feet. Others make a three Years Colt of him, with a Stag's Head, and a Horn in the Front one Ell long. And others again tell you it is like a More or Sea Hore, with divided or cloven Feet, and a Horn in the Front. There are Authors, who attribute to him a Horn 10 Foot long, others ix, and others again but the length of three Inches. See Pliny, Munterus, Marc. Paulus, Philotratus, Heliodorus, and everal others, whoe Relations are of the ame Authority with mine, as that of the Greenlanders, concerning a fierce, ravenous wild Beat, which they call Amavok; which all pretend to know, but no Peron ever yet was found, that could ay, he had een it.

Nies or Porpoies, otherwie Sea Hogs, are alo placed in the Clas of Whales, though of a much maller Size, and are Rh