October 23, 1779

Posted by sydney on Oct 23rd, 1779

Whitings, & herrings.  timothy, the old tortoise at this house, weighs 6 pounds 9 ounces & an half averdupoise.  It weighed last year, Oct. 2, and ounce & an half more.  But perhaps the abstemious life that it lives a this season may have reduced it’s bulk: for tortoises seem to eat nothing for some weeks before they lay-up.  However this enquiry shews, that these reptiles do not, as some have imagined, continue to grow as long as they live.  This poor being has been very torpid for some time; but it does not usually retire under ground ’til the middle of next month.

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