LAND TORTOISE. 
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away considerably up the stream ; and the strange as- 
sertion, that the Manati, a cetaceous inhabitant of the 
Black River with the Crocodile, will remain watching 
a dead body, if brought within its haunts, — was 
witnessed in the case of this girl, by the body being 
found under the guardianship of a Manati, up at a 
place called Salt-spring, a tributary of the Black 
River, where Manatis abound.” 
LAND TORTOISES. 
Some of the old writers mention, among the ani- 
mals of Jamaica, a Tortoise, to which they assign the 
name of Hicatee. As they distinguish it from the 
Marsh Turtles, we may consider it to have been a 
true terrestrial species, one of the Testudinid(B ; but 
whether actually indigenous or imported, is doubtful. 
Animals existing in a country in an independent feral 
state, have aright to a place in the local Fauna, even 
though the race has been originally introduced ; but 
it was the custom of some of the earlier naturalists, 
as Browne for example, to enumerate and describe 
such animals as they saw in the country, though con- 
fessedly imported and preserved in confinement ; on 
which principle the whole contents of Wombwell’s 
menagerie ought to be described in a History of Bri- 
tish Quadrupeds. The author just named mentions 
in his Natural History of Jamaica, The Hicatee or 
Land Turtle,” with the following remark : ‘‘ This 
species is a native of the mainland, but frequently 
imported to Jamaica, where it is common.” Long, 
in his enumeration of the animals of the island, also 
mentions it, without indicating whether he considers 
