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it indigenous or introduced, merely adding a note on 
its longevity. Some of these have been known to 
live [in Jamaica ?] thirty years.’’ 
Mr. Hill has favoured me with a note or two on 
the subject of a Jamaican Testudo, ^pril 2nd, 
1 846. — I have learned that some time ago a Land 
Tortoise, — indubitably such, the limbs being short 
and stumpy, the carapace very convex, and covered 
with pyramidal angular plates, — was taken out of a 
pinguin hedge near this town. I must mention that 
Land Tortoises, brought from South America and 
elsewhere, frequently get away, and are in this 
manner found solitary. Some fifty of a prodigious 
size, brought by a Spaniard for sale, broke away 
near Kingston, and several, for months after, were 
found round about. One used to range the wood- 
lands near the sea at Greenwich, where, in conse- 
quence of some injury it received after it had been a 
year out, it was found dead. I saw its remains 
under one of the trees there a little while ago.” 
May \9th, 1846. — I have heard of two more 
instances of Laud Tortoises being taken under such 
circumstances as would lead to the supposition that 
they were indigenous. In both instances they ap- 
peared to have quitted their usual haunts in search 
of water. They were taken in the midst of pre- 
vailing droughts ; and one, which was captured after 
it had reached the stream where it had been drink- 
ing, bore the evidence of having travelled from far ; 
the interstices of the scales on the legs being charged 
with a fine red dust ; and red earth not being found 
any where in the plain in which it was taken. They 
