 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1831 - 782 pagini
...particular is our turtle-eating metropolis supplied with immense quantities of this luxurious food. It would be quite superfluous to descant on the enthusiastic...turtle- soup is held by our wealthy and discerning fellow citizens. Every year many vessels proceed to the Cape Verd Islands to take in their cargo of... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1831 - 722 pagini
...particular is our turtle-eating metropolis supplied with immense quantities of this luxurious food. It would be quite superfluous to descant on the enthusiastic...turtle- soup is held by our wealthy and discerning fellow citizens. Every year many vessels proceed to the Cape Verd Islands to take in their cargo of... | |
 | 1831 - 660 pagini
...particular, is our turtle-eating metropolis supplied with immense quantities of this luxurious food. It would be quite superfluous to descant on the enthusiastic veneration in which turtlesoup is held by our wealthy and discerning fellow citizens.' — pp. 82 — 85. The next order... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pagini
...From this last island in particular is London supplied with immense quatitites of this luxurious food. It would be quite superfluous to descant on the enthusiastic veneration in which turtle soup is held by English aldermen. The turtles on board ship are kept in puncheons of salt water, which is changed every... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1885 - 508 pagini
...palatable food. Griffith, in his " Animal Kingdom," says : " It would be quite superfluous to dilate on the enthusiastic veneration in which turtle soup is held by our wealthy and discerning citizens." Dried turtle and the dried flesh for soup is now prepared in America and the West Indies.... | |
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France, they are in the highest estimation. In Jamaica they are even preserved in parks ; and their flesh is sold in the shops at a less price than that of beef and mutton. From this last island in particular is our turtle-eating metropolis supplied with... 