434 A DESCRIPTION OF TURTLES. 
are caught, when sleeping on land, by turning them on 
their backs ; for as they cannot turn themselves over 
again, all means of escape is denied them. The lean of 
the Green Turtle tastes and looks like veal, without any 
fishy flavour. The fat is as green as grass, and very 
sweet. The introduction of Turtle as an article of luxury 
into England, appears to have taken place within the 
last eighty or ninety years. They are common in 
Jamaica, and in most of the islands of the East and West 
Indies. Green Turtles are sometimes caught on the 
European shores, driven thither by stress of weather. In 
the year 1752, one six feet long and four feet broad, 
weighing between eight hundred and nine hundred 
pounds, was caught in the harbour of Dieppe, after a 
storm. In 1754, a still larger one, upwards of eight feet 
long, was caught near Antioche, and was carried to the 
Abbey of Long-veau, near Vannes, in Brittany ; and, in 
the year 1810, a small one was caught amongst the sub- 
marine rocks, near Christchurch, in Hampshire. 
