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Of the different kinds of Sea- Tortaife 
astth their properties in general, 
Oe ae E Sea Tortoife is by our failors 
Ye ey called oe Hee eof there 
e four 
See They ey are all Hebe tn the Green: 
T ceiher is that which all the maritime inhabitants in 
America, that live between the Zropicks, fubfi 
They much excel the other kinds of 
and are in great efteem for the wholefome 
and aigeeeble food they afford. 
orts of ‘Turtle; except the Loggerhead-Tur- 
make little refiftance when 
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n Nature’s work, 
that they regard none that auch them, but will 
drop their eggs in a hat, if held under them ; but 
if they are difturbed before they begin to hy "they 
will forfake the place and feek another. 
their eggs at three, and fometimes at four ¢ different 
times, there being fourteen days between every time : 
fo that they hatch and creep from their holes into 
the fea at different times alfo : when they have laid 
their compliments of eggs, they fill the hole with 
fand, and leave them to be hatched by the heat of 
the the fi, which is ufually performed in about three 
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The Green-Turtle. 
HERE are great eae of this kind BE Turtle amongft the 
Des différentes efpeces de ‘Tortues de Mer, 
de leurs propriétés en général. 
36 OS' matelots appellant ordinairement 
la Tortue de Mer Turtle : 
guatres efpeces différentes, la Tortue 
Franche, /e Caret, Jz Caouanne, & 
3 ger; mais la 
“fc Bie abies tous - je de [ Amérique, gui fo 
entre les ee gules, Je nouriffent pre oes : ole 
eff beaucoup préférable aux autres efpeces; & Ton en 
fait se cas, parceque c'eft un mets également fain 
y agréa 
Toutes nt e/peces de Tortues, excepté la Caouanne, 
Jont craintives, ts ne font point derefifiance, lors qu "elles 
Jont prifes ; mais quand elles font en chaleur, elles de- 
viennent furieufes, & ne font 
us pour nager, que Pie r ae ce qu elles 
Sont ree of de Aoi ne vont 
at plus de deus pies de 
profindeur Doe le bale dans lequel elles pondent dans 
une nuit plus de cent a 
qu elles ayent De encé leur ponte, elles quitteront la 
place, & en Od une autre: elles pondent tous 
leurs ceufs & trois ou quatre différentes errs ifes, en 
mettant guator%e Be: ad ‘intervalle entre chacune; 
aif ce i 5 a5 au ee 2 environ trois femaines, 
marina viridis. 
Tortue verte, Olt stows franche. . 
Dn A 7 ur des iles Ba 
hama 
ama Iffands 5 yet none breed there; they come from Cuba A pendant elles ” Bs pondent pas, eos i viment as Cuba & du eee 
and the continent. Their gos, whic differ IT cee and are plainly de ceux des autres eects, & aifés & recon- 
diftinguifhable from thofe of the other kinds, being never found — xoilre, ne Se irovvent t jamais dais ees ites, at het que Le °s cetufs des autres 
there ; whereas moft of thefe ifla nds do len auebes with the —e/peces y / eft préférée aux autres, €P 
eggs of the others. is ki r h reft, and is efteemed on/a re ie fie bee Force “Kilo apo d b 
a very wholefome and delicious ea i it tele its name fro m the sin ‘de fa gr tail, qui we de ae verte. rr, le: Chevalier Slocne 
fat of it, being of a green colour. Sir appris d Hiftoire naturelle de la Jamaique, que les habitans 
of a hatural hifto tory a tains oe oS rty tor. are pints ie by a 2 t Roy ayal a la ique, employent pte mi es a la péche de 
n Fam ces Tortues : 
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@ for the catching them : their 
England are with buicien 
h he 
d Ae irtle as 0 
meat. The Bate aa many o 0 Carolina 
turn to g nt; not becaufe that pee country wants pro- 
vifion, but Ree at are <efleemed there as a rarity and for the de lic ds of 
their flefh. Phefe feed on a kind of grafs o ‘om of 
the fea, commonly called Puree Grats. 
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Alga marina, seaninee agate seas 
HIS Plant grows in fhallow na 
blades fhoot from a ftringy fibrofe ee eee ae fom oe 
root, fixed at the bottom of the fea 
a Angleterre 
Les Bahagmiens pn portent beaucoup ala Carolin ne 
les eftime a “canfe de 
Ei es fe nour orane ee a herbe qui a 
hie 
dicted as ar chai 
att. fond appellé 
Hitt. Jam, 61)=-— Vol: 
CET hig croit dans des baffes. 
au Tjont la Mer, pouffe un ‘ti i fbr Uns 
herbeufes a ‘rites, 
Sa racine, qui eff attache 
a oit fortent plufieurs Seuilles 
