 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 pages
...causing the- plates to start, so as to be easily detached from the boue. These plain vary in thickness, according to the age and size of the animal, and measure...large turtle is said to afford about eight pounds of tortoise shell. In order to bring tortoise shell into the particular form required on the part of the... | |
 | 1834 - 306 pages
...causes the plates to start, so as to be easily detached from the bone. These plates vary in thickness, according to the age and size of the animal, and measure...a quarter of an inch in thickness. A large turtle affords from eight to fifteen pounds of this valuable article of commerce. The Greeks and Romans appear... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...causing the plate to start, so as to be easily detached from the bone. These plates vary in thickness, according to the age and size of the animal, and measure...or, according to M. Schoepf, from five to fifteen pounds ; and unless the animal itself be about the weight of 150 pounds, the shell is not worth much.... | |
 | William Bodenhamer - 1855 - 300 pages
...terminal pouch of the rectum, and varies from half an inch, to one inch and a half in breadth, and from an eighth, to a quarter of an inch in thickness. A knowledge of the natural action of these two muscles, as well as their action and sympathies in the... | |
 | 1856 - 530 pages
...merely the scales that cover the bony shield of the turtle. These scales are thirteen in number, varying from an eighth to a quarter of an inch in thickness. A large turtle will furnish about eight pounds. To detach this shell from the living animal is a cruel process, which... | |
 | Arthur Mangin - 1868 - 480 pages
...separated from it by the application of fire beneath the shell. The plates thus detached vary in thickness according to the age and size of the animal, and measure...from an eighth to a quarter of an inch in thickness. THE IMBRICATED TURTLE (Chelmia imbricate}. THE CORIACEOUS TURTLE. and there is no under or thoraic... | |
 | 1856 - 1162 pages
...merely the scales that cover the bony shield of the ttmîe. The scales are thirteen in number, varying from an eighth to a quarter of an inch in thickness. A large turtle will furnish about eight pounds. To detach this shell from the living anim.il is a cruel process, which... | |
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... to start, so as to be easily detached from the bone. These plates vary in thickness, according to the age and size of the animal, and measure from an eighth to a quarter of an inch in thickness. A large turtle is said to afford about eight pounds... 