APPENDIX. 



^"""I'^HE late Bilhop of Carlifle informed me Tortosse. 

 that a tortoife was taken off the coaft of ^^^^ ^' 



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Scarhorougb in 1748 or 1749. It was pur- 

 chafed by a family at that time there, and a good 

 deal of company invited to partake of it. A gen- 

 tleman, who was one of the guefls, told them it 

 was a Mediterranean turtle, and not wholefomae : 

 only one of the company eat of it, and it almoft 

 killed him, being feized with a dreadful vomiting 

 and purging. 



^ Since the printing of that article I have been fa- Toad, 1 

 vored with fome very curious accounts of this rep- 

 tile, which will give greater light into its natural 

 hiftory than I am capable of, from a mod unphi-r 

 lofophical but invincible sverfion to the whole ge- 

 nus. The fadls that will appear in the following 

 lines ferve to confirm my opinion of its being an 

 innoxious animal, and, I hope, will ferve to free 



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