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AMPHIBIA. REPTILES. i.Teftudo. 644 
I^ore and hind-feet 2-clawed ; plates lax, lying over each 
other. Hawk’ s-bill Turtle. 
Inhabits America and Aftatic feas; above 2 inches long. 
deprell'ed; longifh ; jhelLovA-, ribs of the, plate ^7 
flender, carinate, interrupted, acute, at the edge, lerrate be- 
hind, with 34 unequal I'cales, chiefly pentagonal, of which 
1 3 are on the difk, the reft; on the margin. The plates are 
the tortoife-fhel'l of the {hops. 
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f'ore-feet 2-clavved ; hind-feet folitary 5 fliell oval. 
Claws pointed, one on each foot. 
3 * Beak like the bill of a goofe. ‘ 
4 - Beak like the bill of a fowl. > 
Plate of the fhell very large. 
Inhabits Southern feas ; is the large (i of its tribe, and fo ftrong 
as to be able to run with a load of 600 pounds weight, and 
to move with as many men as can fit upon its back ; fleeps 
on the water upon its back, but when turned up on land is 
not able to' move ; lays numerous round membranaceous eggs 
(as many as 1000) which it depoftts in the fahd and fits up- 
on by night ; flefli and green fat delicious and greedily fought 
after by fcorbutic failors ; feeds on lepix and fliell-fifh. 
Plates of tlte back gibbous behind 4 fore arid hind-feet 
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a-clavved. 
Inhabits near the American and Mediterranean iflai'ids; affords 
tortoife-fiiell ; flefh rancid. 
Jiead middle fize ; mouth large; long, flout ; back more pro- 
minent and gibbous than others ; Jhell thick, elegantly painted. 
Shell oval, keeled, notched j feet large, 2-clawed. 
B. Feet palmate: fljell joined to the cheji by a membrane, 
pnd propped eaeh ftde in the middle by 2 prdcejfes of the 
cheji. River Turtles. 
*0^ ^^^11 round, flattilh, fmooth. Round Tortoife. 
Shell dotted. 
3 * Shell rough. 
Inhabits Europe as far as Prufpa. 
Shell of the female very entire at the edge and finoother on the 
furftice ; plate of the male fub-convex white, as is the head, 
and furrowed with fmall black ftreaks, behind much lefe 
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