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Reptiles. 
as grass, and very sweet. The introduction of Turtle as 
an article of food 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 shores of Europe, driven thither by stress 
of weather. In the year 1752, one, six feet long and 
four feet broad, weighing between eight and nine hun- 
dred 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 Longveau, near Vannes, in Brittanj T ; and 
in the year 1810, a small one was caught amongst the 
submarine rocks near Christchurch, in Hampshire. 
The reader will remember how delighted Eobinson 
Crusoe was to find a large Turtle which, he says, con- 
tained three score eggs. Behold him dragging it home. 
