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warmth *, he incUnes his fhell, by tilting it againfl the wall, to 
colled and admit every feeble ray. 
Pitiable feems the condition of this poor embarrafled reptile : 
to be cafed in a fuit of ponderous armour, which he cannot lay 
afide ; to be imprifoned, as it were, within his own fliell, muft 
preclude, we ibould fuppofe, all adivity and difpofition for enter- 
prize. Yet there is a feafon of the year (ufually the beginning of 
June) when his exertions are remarkable. He then walks on tip- 
toe, and is ftirring by five in the morning; and, traverfing the gar- 
den, examines every wicket and interftice in the fences, through 
which he will efcape if poffible: and often has eluded the care of 
the gardener, and wandered to fome diftant field. The motives 
that impel him to undertake thefe rambles feeni to be of the amo- 
rous kind : his fancy then becomes intent on fexual attachments, 
which tranfport him beyond his ufual gravity, and induce him to 
forget for a time his ordinary folemn deportment. 
* Several years ago a book was written entitled " Fruit-walls improved by inclining 
" them to (he horizon:" in which the author has fliewn, by calculation, that a much 
greater number of the rays of the fun will fall on fuch walls than on thofe which are per- 
pendicular. 
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