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The Green Turtle is the most valuable, it is extremely easy of
Digestion they are brought from Jamaica & other W India Islands
it is generally 200 Weigh & sometimes 500 and formerly were large
enough according to the ancients for boats. V Diod Sic & Pliny

Supplementary tribes of fishes

Testaceous fishes

For the purpose of forming the shell the animal is furnish=
ed with a glutinous fluid which spring from the pores
hardens and forms the shell - their colours arise from
the substances they are [?] with & they are of all except
blue which the Sea water prevents -

They are divided into 1 Univalve or turbinated or 2 bivalve
& 3 multivalve

[?]sinated - The Gordon Snail - This [?]