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It lives near the sea islands:Ascension Isle, etc. It buries its membranous eggs by 
night in calcareous sand. 
Its tlesh is greenish and edible. It sleeps on its back on the sea. It attacks as many 
men as pursue it. It does not get up when on its backl on land. Its shell was once 
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Caretta. 2: Turtle with flipper-like feet. Two claws on its fore and hind feet; shell ovate and 
sharply serrated. 
Gron. mus. 2. p. 85. n. 69. Turtle with swimming feet, two sharp claws. 
Brown, jam. 465. Turtle with two sharp claws on each side, five gibbous scales on 
its back. 
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Catesb. car. p. 39, t. 39. Testudo Caretta Rochef. 12 
Raj. quadr. 258. Testudo Caretta. 
Lives near American islands. 
orbicu- 3: Turtle with palmate feet, circular and flattish shell. 
laris Raj. quadr. 254. Freshwater turtle? 
Lives in southern Europe. 
Small, very solid, rounded shell neither anteriorly nor posteriorly emarginate. The 
sternum is split posteriorly. The toes of the feet are connected by a membrane 
into a round sole. 
scabra 4.Turtle with a flattish shell with all its small scutes in the middorsum. 
Lives in the Indies. 
The body and sides of the shell, below, are variably white and black. The 
sternum is truncated posteriorly. 
lutaria 5. Turtle with subpalmate feet; tail shorter than half its body; subconvex shell, 
carinate to the rear; with three scutes. 
Amoen. acad. 1. p. 139, n. 23.Turtle with sharp claws, four each on the fore and 
hind feet.* 
Lives in Italy, Orient. 
Forefeet more or less palmate, hind feet less so. Sternum posteriorly truncate. 
graeca 6. Turtle with subdigitate feet, a gibbous shell with a very blunt lateral margin, 
flattish scutes. 
The lesser, tessellated African turtle. Edw. av. 204. t. 204. 
Lives in Africa. 
Tailed body, five claws on its forefeet but four on the rear. 
Carolina 7. Turtle with digitate feet, a gibbous shell, no tail. 
Tessellated lesser Carolinian turtle . Edw. av. 205.1205. 
Lives in Carolina. 
Five-toed forefeet, four-toed hind feet. 
carinata 8. Turtle with digitate feet, humped shell, four dorsal small scutes, front 13 scutes 
carinate. Solid, one-piece sternum. 
Lives in warm regions. 
* This asterisk probably is a typographic error-no meaning can be ascertained. 
Turtles often live 14 days with their heads cut off. In the colder regions the terrestrial types hibernate during 
winter. No animal is slower than a turtle. During copulation they often cling together for a month. 
