. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . Fio. 3.—Alligator Terrapin {Cheli/dra serpentina), enjoyed perfect security; and this, as well as their extraordinarydegree of longevity, accounts for their enormous size and their largenumbers. They could be captured in any (juantity with the greatestease within a few days, and proved to the sliips companies whoduring their long voyages had to subsist mainly on. salt pcovisionsa most welcome addition to their table. They could be carried in. no. 4 Loggerhead iCaouana carecla)tlie hold of a ship, withou
. The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ... A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . Fio. 3.—Alligator Terrapin {Cheli/dra serpentina), enjoyed perfect security; and this, as well as their extraordinarydegree of longevity, accounts for their enormous size and their largenumbers. They could be captured in any (juantity with the greatestease within a few days, and proved to the sliips companies whoduring their long voyages had to subsist mainly on. salt pcovisionsa most welcome addition to their table. They could be carried in. no. 4 Loggerhead iCaouana carecla)tlie hold of a ship, without food, for months, and were slaugntercdas occasion required, each tortoise yielding, according to size, from80 to 300 pounds of excellent and wholesome meat. Under thesecircumstances the numbers of these helpless creatures decreased sorapidly that in the beginning of this century their exterminationwas accomplished in the Jlascarencs, and now only a few remainjn a wild state in Aldabra and in some of the islands of the Gala-pagos group. Singularly, the majority of these islands were in-habited each by one or more peculiar forms, specifically distinct
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