APPENDIX. 
Tortoife, page 1. ‘The late Bifhop of Car/ifle informed 
Toad, 7. 
me that a tortoife was taken off the 
coaft of Scarborough in 1748 or 
1749. It was purchafed by a fa- 
mily at that time there, and a good 
deal of company invited to par- 
take of it. A gentleman, who was 
one of the guefts, told them it was 
a Mediterranean turtle, and not 
wholefome: only one of the com- 
pany 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 favored with fome very 
curious accounts of this reptile, 
which will give greater light into 
its natural hiftory than I am capa- 
ble of, from a moft unphilofophical 
but invincible averfion to the whole 
genus. The faéts that will appear 
in the following lines ferve to con- 
firm my opinion of its being an 
qnnoxious animal, and, I hope, will 
ferve to free numbers from a panic 
that is carried to a degree of infeli- 
city, 
