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cutting their throats. About three hundred Turtle, of four or five hundred pounds each, lay on the sand, or swam about in the ponds; a sight to set an alderman mad with delight.
"In the hot months of January, February, March, and April, the females land at night; and waddling over the sands in the various bays of
TURNING TURTLE.
the island far above high-water mark,—for by a pole in the ponds, the tide only rises here two feet,—they scrape up, by alternate scoops of their flippers, a hole deep enough to cover their bodies. Into this they get, sighing heavily, and deposit
