turned it out on a border, it walked twice down to 

 the bottom of my garden ; however, in the evening, 

 the weather being cold, it 

 buried itself in the loose 

 mould, and con- 

 tinues still con- 

 cealed. 



A successor to Whitens tortoise in the garden at " The Wakes^"* 



As it will be under my eye, I shall now have an 

 opportunity of enlarging my observations on its 

 mode of life, and propensities ; and perceive already 

 that towards the time of coming forth, it opens a 

 breathing-place in the ground near its head, requir- 

 ing, I conclude, a freer respiration as it becomes 

 more alive. This creature not only goes under the 

 earth from the middle of November to the middle of 

 April, but sleeps great part of the summer; for it 



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