fresh-water seal

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small seal, Phoca vitulina, common on the East Coast.

Quotations

1828

[Saw two or three seals. N. B. These are fresh water seals and their skins of fine quality. . . .]

1922

"And here . . . is where he caught the rare fresh-water seal and made his salmon kills. 'Tis a lake, sir," said Miller. . . .

1939

Here [Lower Seal Lake] the Indians said that we might find the freshwater seal, the main objective of our inland trip.