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XXXII. An Account of two new Yortofes\ 
in a 'Letter to Matthew Maty, M, D, 
Sec. R.S.: By Thomas Pennant, 
F. R. S. 
SIR, 
Read May "T BEG the favoui* of you to lay before 
Jl^ the Royal Society, an account of two 
tortoifes that have juft fallen into my hands. 
The hrft was communicated to me * by my 
worthy and learned correfpondent Dodlor Garden, of 
Charles Town, in South Carolina ; a gentleman to 
whom the world is indebted for various information 
relating to the natural hiflory of that province j and 
whofe adiduity promifes fair to enable me to make 
conliderable additions to the accounts already given of 
the new world. He has favoured me with an ample 
defeription of this new animal ; together with fome 
relation of its manners ; both of which are now 
delivered to the Society in the words of the ingenious 
writer. 
* The fpecimen now under the infpecSlion of the Society, 
was lent me, by my good friend Mr. Ellis ; my own fpecimen 
being in the country ; to Mr. Ellis I was alio imlebtcd tor the 
elegant drawing of the animal, done from the life, in South 
Carolina. 
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