[106] Our Houseleek. See B. xxv. c. 102.
[107] Because it is then powerless, and can make no effort to rise.
[108] An absurd story, founded, no doubt, on the extremely slow pace of the tortoise. Ajasson remarks that it is the fresh-water tortoise, more particularly, that is so slow in its movements.
[109] In B. xxi. c. 44.
[110] Or Gilt-head. “Aurata.” See B. ix. c. 25.
[111] In B. viii. c. 38. See also B. xxviii. c. 30.
[112] Among others, in B. vii. c. 13, and B. xxviii. c. 23.
[113] In B. xxviii. c. 23.
[114] As to this point, see c. [12] of this Book, and the Notes.
[115] He must mean the Sea-dragon, mentioned in B. ix. c. 43, and in c. [53] of the present Book; for he has already stated in B. xxix. c. 20, that the serpent called “draco” is destitute of venom. See also B. viii. cc. 13, 14, 22, 41, and B. x. cc. 5, 92, 95, 96.