 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 624 páginas
...presented to it, and sometimes will not let go its hold even after the head is severed from the body. It is sought after as an article of food, but, when old, the flesh is rank and disagreeable, and, at all times, it exhales a strong, musky odor. It attains large dimensions... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 páginas
...presented to it, and sometimes will not let go its hold even after the head is severed from the body. It is sought after as an article of food, but, when old, the flesh is rank and disagreeable, and, at all times, it exhales a strong, musky odor. It attains large dimensions... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 620 páginas
...presented to it, and sometimes will not let go its hold even after the head is severed from the body. It is sought after as an article of food, but, when old, the flesh is rank and disagreeable, and, at all times, it exhales a strong, musky odor. It attains large dimensions... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 618 páginas
...presented to it, and sometimes will not let go its hold even after the head is severed from the body. It is sought after as an article of food, but, when old, the flesh is rank and disagreeable, and, at all times, it exhales a strong, musky odor. It attains large dimensions... | |
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... limbs and tail are very large, the latter strongly crested. From the form of its body, it is called, in the Southern States, alligator tortoise. It bites severely, and will seize any thing presented to it, and sometimes will not let go its hold even... 