Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 281
A HAPPY FAMILY OF FRISCT YOUNG HARES WITH A GALAPAGOS TORTOISE, KEPT IN A PARK. Length of tortoise, when full-grown, five feet. 268 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [Jan. were taken. Very similar tortoises are foundon the island of Aldabra, and were once foundon Mauritius and Bourbon; but on… … THE GREEN TURTLE. Length, when full-grown, five feet. taken to Sydney in 1853 weighed 53 pounds,while at the time of its death in 1896 it hadincreased to 368 pounds, so that the animal wasprobably from fifty to sixty years old. But fossils from northern India show that inages gone by tortoises grew…
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