Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 56
and when clean and dry is of a duskyyellowish color. This species once inhabitedabout two hundred miles of the coast of Califor-nia, from Point Reyes southward, but it has beenpractically exterminated for the sake of its oil.In 1884 Mr. C. H. Townsend visited Santa Bar-bara Island for the express… … THE CAL1R RNIA SEA-ELEPHANT. to fourteen feet, while it sometimes reaches theastonishing length of twenty-two feet, includingthe hind flippers. It is still an open questionwhether this animal is of the same species asthe sea-elephant of the Antarctic Ocean. Ouranimal, like the other, derives its…
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