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Excerpt from Ice-Riding Pinnipeds: A Description of the Migration and Peculiarities of the Phoca Greenlandica and Cystophora Cristata, With Remarks on the Phoca Barbata, the Vitulina, and Trichechus Rosmarus, on the North-East Coast of America
It will be obvxous that great differences of Opinion must exist with regard to many of the subjects touched upon, extending as they do, over a large area of the eastern sea board of North America, and dealing with minute par ticulars of an animal, which may be described as constantly under water, and whose goings have only been arrived at after a century of experience.
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