AFRICAN TORTOISE. 
or black spots. There are five claws on each 
foot forwards, but four only on each of the 
hinder feet. 
When this creature is apprehensive of any 
danger, it draws it's head, tail, and legs, into 
the shell ; a quality which it possesses in com- 
mon with the rest of the genus. 
It is somewhat singular that, though the 
Land Tortoises, among moderns, engross the 
appellation of Tortoise, to the exclusion of 
the various kinds of Sea Tortoise, v^'hich are 
denominated Turtle, the Hawksbiil species of 
this latter class are the animals which supply 
the Tortoiseshell, as it is still called, that is 
manufadlured into such a variety of useful 
and curious articles. 
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