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Rh diagram will clearly illustrate. The shell is cut by a circular saw, in the manner represented in the zigzag lines; thus, when the sawing is completed, the shell can be pulled in two, and the teeth of the combs will be cut out of one another, while the solid margins are left to form the backs.

Besides the localities already named as the resorts of the Hawksbill Turtle, we may mention the West Indian Isles, those of Bourbon and Mauritius, the Seychelles, and most of the situations enumerated in the notice of the Green Turtle. On three occasions it has occurred on the shores of our own country. Sibbald received the shell of one which came into Orkney. Fleming records its having been taken at Papa Stour, one of the West Zetland Isles; and Dr. Turton mentions one which was taken in the Severn in the year 1774, and placed in his father's fishponds, where it lived till the following winter.