THE 
IMBRICATED TORTOISE. 
Generic Character. 
Body four-footed, tailed ■, covered with a fhell. 
Month with uncovered, toothlefs, bony mandibles. 
Specific Character, &c. 
SEA-TORTOISE with two claws on each foot ; 
the fhell confiffing of laxly-imbricated, acu¬ 
minated fcales. 
Hawk’s-Bill TURTLE ? 
Brown, yam. p. 465. 
Scaly TORTOISE ? 
Grew. Muf. p. 38. t. 3. 
The animals of this genus are divided into land, 
river, and fea tortoifes ; which latter are commonly 
diftinguilhed by the name of Turtles • and are fur- 
niflied with broad, flat feet, refembling a kind of 
thick, fcaly fins. Of thefe the moft important 
fpecies is the Teftudo Mydas, which has long been 
celebrated for the peculiar delicacy of its fiefh, and 
which forms a principal article in the repafts of 
modern 
