Xiv CONTENTS. 



their haunts instanced throughout the animal creation — 

 Effects of the bite of a Serpent upon two dogs — Eemedies 

 adduced — Snakes in the Septile-house — Discrepancies of 

 Heptile organization — The Land Tortoise described — Their im- 

 mense size — American mode of immortalizing names — Large 

 Land-Tortoises short-lived in England — White's Tortoise, its 

 peculiarities — Eedi's experiments upon the Land-Tortoise — 

 Its enduring vitality instanced — Eranklin's Elies — Extra- 

 ordinary longevity of a Ely — The Land, Marsh, Eiver, and 

 Sea-Tortoises — General remarks p. 228 



CHAPTER XL 



The Turtle — Professor Owen's observations — Difference between 

 the Turtle and the Land Tortoise defined — The Green Turtle 

 — Chantrey and Turtle-soup — The ' Alderman's Walk' — ^A 

 Turtle feast — Supper of Claudius Albinus — Wine-bibbing 

 propensities of the ancient Eomans — Use of Tortoiseshell in 

 E-ome — Large skull of a Turtle — Eemarks on the natural 

 history and capture of Turtles — Sloane's account of a Turtle 

 (jiet — Labat's opinion thereon — Mode of quieting Turtles, 

 to avoid their bite — Protracted struggle between a slave 

 and a Turtle — Mode of capture — Pliny's account of it — 

 Turtle-divers — A Turtle-chase — Account of the Bemora — Of 

 Turtles and their uses — Allusions and general remarks in 

 relation to the Tortoise p. 265 



CHAPTER XII. 



Geological remarks— Eossil foot-prints — Egyptian legends con- 

 nected with the form of the Crocodile — Methods of capture 

 — Crocodile-executioners — Ancient superstitions connected 

 with the Crocodile— Sacred to the Egyptians— Nature of the 

 Crocodile — Its protectors — Crocodiles destructive of the 

 humanrace — Sonnini's remarks on the Crocodile — Bait usedfor 



