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the fat is boiled, it grows green, and taftes 

 like marrow ; the reft of the flefh is moflly 

 white, and taftes like beef. The flefh is boil- 

 ed in a broth prepared with tortoife eggs, and 

 is eaten with vinegar. It is an excellent reme- 

 dy againft fcurvy, coftivenefs, and other dif- 

 eafes. The bread is roafted, with {hell and 

 flefli, by the name of callopee, and eats ex- 

 ceedingly well', efpecially while the animal is 

 yet fat ; but after it has been without food 

 for fome weeks, it is no wonder that the flefli 

 fhould become lean atid unpalatable. The 

 bowels and liver are likewife eaten. A tor- 

 toife has frequently 500, or 600, and as I have 

 been told, fometimes 1500 eggs: they are 

 quite round, have no white, and are furround- 

 ed with a foft fldn : they are never eaten by 

 themfelves, but either in foups or pancakes ; 

 but the fifliy tafte prevails, however they are 

 drefled. 



Squalus Adfcenfionis, is a fifh whofe body 

 is blueifti at top, and white below: the 

 head is very flat: the eyes are on the 

 fides, and not at the top : the anal-fin is near 

 the tail : its length is above two feet : the 

 yiembrana branchioftega are below the /piracies, 

 and have fix rays, 



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