BRITISH ZOOLOGY. 
Clafs ITI. 
Re Bec Ra) bal, UB. Ss. 
Genus I. Body covered eitner with a fhell or ftrong 
hide, divided by futures; four fin-like 
feet; a fhort tail. Tortoise. 
EL ihe SPINOUS TORTOISE. 
‘Teftudo coriacea five Mercurii  gulis feptem exaratis. Liz. 
Rondel. 450? Gefner pifc.g46? fit. 350. 
Teftudo coriacea? Tettudo pe- Turtle. Borla/e Coriwall, 28s. 
dibus pinniformibus muti- Plate 27. 
cis, tefta coriacea, cauda an- 
HIS fpecies (if the teftudo coriacea) feems com- 
mon to the Mediterranean, and to our fouthern 
feas, and is not, as far as we know, difcovered in 
any other. 
Two were taken on the coaft of Cornwall in the 
mackrel nets, of a vaft fize, a little after Mid/um- 
mer 1756; the largeft weighed eight hundred pounds, 
the leffer near feven hundred. 
Doétor Borlafe firft publifhed thefe animals to the 
world, and difcovered them in our feas. 
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