APPENDIX. 



THE late Bifhop of Carlijle informed me Tortoise, 

 that a tortoife was taken off the coaft of PAGE /* 

 Scarborough in 1748 or 1749. It was pur- 

 chafed by a family at that time there, and a good 

 deal of company invited to partake of it. A gen- 

 tleman, who was one of the guefts, told them it 

 was a Mediterranean turtle, and not wholefome : 

 only one of the company eat of it, and it almofc 

 killed him, being feized with a dreadful vomiting 

 and purging. 



Since the printing of that article I have been fa- Toad, 13. 

 vored with fome very curious accounts of this rep- 

 tile, which will give greater light into its natural 

 hiftory than I am capable of, from a mod unphi- 

 lofophical but invincible averfion to the whole ge- 

 nus. The facts that will appear in the following 

 lines ferve to confirm my opinion of its being an 

 innoxious animal, and, I hope, will ferve to free 



numbers 



