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ing diagram will clearly illustrate. The shell is 

 cut by a circular saw, in the manner represented 

 in the zigzag lines; thus, when the sawing is 

 completed, the shell can be pulled in two, and 

 the teeth of the combs will be cut out of one 

 another, while the solid margins are left to form 

 the backs. 



Besides the localities already named as the 

 resorts of the Hawksbill Turtle, we may mention 

 the West Indian Isles, those of Bourbon and 

 Mauritius, the Seychelles, and most of the situa- 

 tions enumerated in the notice of the Green Tur- 

 tle. On three occasions it has occurred on the 

 shores of our own country. Sibbald received the 

 shell of one which came into Orkney. Fleming 

 records its having been taken at Papa Stour, one 

 of the West Zetland Isles ; and Dr. Turton men- 

 tions one which was taken in the Severn in 

 the year 1774, and placed in his father's' fish- 

 ponds, where it lived till the following winter. 



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