The Green Turtle. 
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THE GREEN TURTLE. (Chelonia midas.) 
Most of the Turtles are considered very delicate food, 
especially the green species. Some of them are so large 
as to weigh from four to eight hundred pounds. Dam- 
pier mentions an immensely large one that was caught 
at Port Royal, in the Bay of Campeachy. It was nearly 
six feet long, and four feet broad. A son of Captain 
Roch, a boy about ten years old, went in the shell, from 
the shore to his father's ship, which was about a quarter 
of a mile distant. 
Turtle generally ascend from the sea, and crawl on 
the beach, for the purpose of laj'ing their eggs (which 
are as large sometimes as those of a common hen), some- 
times to the number of fifty or sixty at a time. The 
young ones, as soon as they are hatched, crawl down to 
the water. 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 
