abounds in the rivers of South America ; the Testudo 

 Gr&ca, an inhabitant of Africa and Sardinia ; the Testudo 

 squamata of Java ; and the Testudo Europea, which is the 

 species most abundantly distributed over the southern 

 countries of Europe, are prized as dainties of the table. 

 Some species of the lizard tribe are also used as food. 

 Both the flesh and eggs of the Iguana are eaten. Some 

 species of the viper are prepared as food, and several kinds 

 of frogs are in common use on the Continent, as delicate 

 articles for the table. Nearly the whole class of Fishes are 

 employed as articles of food, and in many parts of the 

 globe they form almost the entire support of extensive 

 populations. On the coasts of Lapland, Siberia, and the 

 western parts of Africa, many rude tribes make bread 

 of dried or pounded fishes. Most of the marine and 

 fresh-water Molluscous and Conchiferous Animals afford 

 a wholesome and palatable food, and are very extensively 

 used by those who inhabit the shores of the sea; the 

 cuttle-fish, the oyster, the mussel, the clam, the cockle, 

 the whelk, the limpet, and the snail, are among those in 

 common use. The Romans were supplied with oysters from 

 the British coasts. Numerous Crustacea, as all the larger 

 species of crabs and lobsters, the prawn, the shrimp, 

 &c., are extensively employed as articles of diet, and as a 

 highly flavoured condiment to more substantial aliment. 

 Even the classes of Insects, Tunicata, and Radiata, supply 

 articles of nutriment to man ; the locust is extensively used 

 as an article of food, the honey of the bee, some species of 

 ascidcz and actin& t and the ovaria of the Echinus esculen- 

 tus are also employed. 



Many Animals which feed on substances obnoxious 

 to us, afford, notwithstanding, a wholesome nourishment. 

 Numerous insectivorous Quadrupeds subsist entirely on 

 the most loathsome and indigestible insects and worms. 

 Birds, which feed on the most poisonous reptiles and insects, 

 yet afford a wholesome flesh ; and crabs, which feed on the 

 most putrid carcasses of fishes, yet yield a highly palatable 



