r number find their way to New York, being packed and
crowded, often brutally, in the common fish-cars at the Fulton Market
dock in such numbers that many are unable to rise, and consequently
drown. The greatest injustice, however, to the long-suffering turtle
comes when the miserable animal is propped up before some restaurant
door, bearing upon its broad carapace the grim assertion, "To be served
this day."

The green or loggerhead turtles are rarely seen north of Cape Florida.
The outer reef is their home, their range extending far to the south.
Old turtles, like fishes, often have strange companions. They are
covered with barnacles of various kinds; several remoras form their
body-guard, clinging here and there as if part and parcel of their huge
consort. Often small fish allied to the mackerel accompany them, as does
also the pilot-fish of the shark. One large loggerhead pegged by the
writer had its four flippers bitten off by the latter fishes so close to
the shell that it could barely move along, and would undoubtedly soon
have succumbed, although it is a common thing to find both green and
loggerhead turtles minus parts of their locomotive organs.

The great leather turtle (_Sphurgis coriacea_), the largest of the
tribe, is rarely seen, being seemingly a denizen of the high seas, and
more commonly observed in colder waters; though Gosse is authority for
the statement that they form their nests on the island of Jamaica. The
following account is from the Jamaica "Morning Journal" of April 13,
1846: "The anxiety of the fishermen in this little village was aroused
on the 30th of last month by the track of a huge sea-monster, called a
trunk-turtle, which came on the sea-beach for the purpose of laying her
eggs. A search was made, when a hole in the sand was discovered, about
four feet deep and as wide as the mouth of a half-barrel, whence five or
six dozen white eggs were taken out; the eggs were of different sizes,
the largest the size of a duck's egg. On the morning of the 10th of this
month, at half-past five o'clock, she was discovered by Mr. Crow, on the
beach, near the spot where she first came up; he gave the alarm, when
all the neighbors assembled and got her turned on her back. She took
twelve men to haul her about two hundred yards. I went and measured her,
and found her dimensions as follows: from head to tail, six feet six
inches; from the outer part of her fore fin to the other end" (to the
tip of the o