III. 



REPTILES. 



Body covered either with a fhell or ftrono; hide, L ' 



7 to ' TORTOISE. 



divided by futures.; four fin-like feet ; a fhort tail. 



Teitudo coriacea five Mercu- ticis, tefta coriacea, cauda i. Coriace- 



rii. Rondel. 450? Gefner angulis feptem exaratis. ous. 



pifc. 946 ? Lin. fyfi. 350. 



Teitudo coriacea ? Teftudo Turtle. Borlafe Cornwall, 



pedibus pinniformibus mu- 285. Plate 27. 



THIS fpecies is common to the Medi- 

 terranean, and to our fouthern feas, 

 and is not, as far as we know, dis- 

 covered in any other. 



Two were taken on the coaft of Cornwall in the 

 mackrel nets, of a vail: fize, a little after Mid/urn- 

 mer 1756; the largeft weighed eight hundred 

 pounds, the ierTer near feven hundred. A third, 

 of equal weight with the firft, was caught on the 



B 4 coaft 



