CLASS III 



REPTILES 



Body covered either with a fliell or ftron^ hide- ^° 



^ . TORTOISE., 



divided by futures^ four fin-like feet; a fhort tail. 



Telcudo coriacea five Mercu- 

 rii. Ro'fidel. 450? Gefner 

 pifc. 946 ? 



tieis, tefta coriacea, cauda i. Cotiiace- 

 angulis feptem exaratis. ous., 



Lin.fyjl. 350. 



Telcuck) coriacea ? Tefludo Turtle. Borlafe Cornn)oall^ 

 pedibus pinniformibus mu- 285. Plate 27. 



THIS fpecies is common to the Medi- 

 terranean^ and to our fouthern feas, 

 and is not, as far as w€ know, dif-> 

 covered in any other. 



Two were taken on the coafl of Cornwall in the 

 mackrel nets, of a vaft fize, a little after Midfum- 

 mer 1756; the largeft weighed eight hundred 

 pounds, the lefTer near feven hundred. A thirds 

 of equal weight with the firft, was caught on the 



B 4 coaft 



