RHYTINA  , a name applied to the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-cow (Rhytina gigas, or stelleri), a gigantic relative of the See also:

• MANATI (often anglicized as "manatee")

manati and See also:

• DUGONG

dugong, which formerly inhabited See also:

• BERING (BEHRING), VITUS (1680-1741)

Bering and See also:

• COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

Copper Islands, in the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North Pacific, where it was discovered during Bering's voyage in 1741, and subsequently described by Steller, who accompanied that expedition as a naturalist . Bering's See also:

• HALF

half-starved sailors soon reduced the See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers of these comparatively helpless creatures; and it was not See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long after—probably about the See also:

• YEAR

year 1768—that the See also:

• SPECIES

species, which was the See also:

• SOLE (Solea)

sole representative of its genus, became completely exterminated . The Rhytina was the largest member of the See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order Sirenia, attaining a length of nearly twenty feet; and had a very thick, rugged, bark-like skin . The jaws, which are See also:

• BENT
• BENT (E1. BENI)
• BENT, JAMES THEODORE (1852–1897)

bent downwards to a moderate extent, are unprovided with See also:

• TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth, but in See also:

• LIFE

life carried ridged horny plates . The tail was very deeply forked; and the flippers were See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short and truncated, lacking apparently the terminal See also:

• JOINTS

joints of the digits . When first discovered., this Sirenian was extremely numerous in the bays of Bering See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island, where it browsed upon the abundant sea-tangle . Its extirpation is due to the See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian sailors and traders who visited the island in pursuit of See also:

• SEALS

seals and sea-otters, and who subsisted on its flesh . Numbers of bones have been discovered in the See also:

• SOIL

soil of Bering and Copper Islands, from which more or less nearly perfect skeletons have been reconstructed, so that the See also:

• OSTEOLOGY (Gr. ovTeov, bone)

osteology of this interesting See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal is well represented in most of the larger museums . (R .