AMERICAN RIVER TORTOISES AT HOME. 



REPTILES. 



THE remarkable beings which are classed together under the general title of REPTILES, 

 or creeping animals, are spread over those portions of the globe where the chma 

 tolerably warm, and are found in the greatest profusion under the hotter 1 

 Impatient of cold, though capable of sustaining a temperature of such freezing d 



