LAND TORTOISE FROM AFRICA. 
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Dimensions. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length of head, 2 3 
Breadth of head, measured from the an- 
terior angle of one orbit to the corres- 
ponding angle of the other, - - 0 10 
From posterior angle of ditto, - - 0 12 
Greatest breadth posteriorly, - - 1 3 
Height of head, measured in a line with 
posterior angle of lower jaw, - - 0 91 
Length of neck, 3 0 
Length of anterior extremities, - - 51 0 
“ of posterior “ - - 4 10 
Length of tail, 3 0 
Length of carapace, following line of 
curvature, - - - - -12 0 
Breadth, measured in the middle, and in 
the same manner, - - - 8 10 
Length of anterior portion of sternum, 3 61 
“ of middle “ “41 
“ of posterior “ “ 1 9 
Breadth of anterior portion of sternum, 4 3 
“ of middle “ “ 7 0 
“ of posterior, “ “ 5 2 
Height of shell, ----- 4 0 
The first notice we have of this species is by 
Shaw, in the third volume of the General Zoology, 
in which he describes the shell of the young ani- 
mal, and gives, as a synonyme, the Testudo den- 
ticulata, of Linnaeus, which is now ascertained to 
be the young of the tabulata. Schweigger next de- 
