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LIFE OF GEORGE MORLAND. J 89
was not without difficulty that he carried his vessel to
Candia, and there presented to the Venetian governor, a
whole ton of salted heads of those who had been killed
in their frequent boarding of his vessel. His Excellency
was astonished, and after bestowing on him all ima-
ginable caresses, he informed the Senate of the gallan-
try of Middleton, who was presented by them with a
chain and medal of gold, as an honourable testimony of
their high esteem, and his own valour. He did not long
enjoy his well-earned reputation, but died on his passage
home.
EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY OF THE LAND TORTOISE.
In the Library of Lambeth Palace, is the shell of a
land-tortoise, brought to that place by Archbishop Laud,
about 1633, which lived till the year 1753, when it was
killed by the inclemency of the weather. A labourer
having, for a trifling wager, dug it up from its winter
retreat, neglected to replace it, and it is supposed to have
perished by the frost during the night.—Another tortoise
was placed in the gardens of the episcopal house at Ful-
ham, by the same prelate, when bishop of London, in the
year 1628: but this died a natural death in 1754. The
ages of the animals when first placed in those situations
are not known.
Life of that celebrated Painter and eccentric Character
George Morland, with a Portrait.
In a work, the chief object of which is to delineate the
lives and actions of eccentric and remarkable characters,
few persons can more justly claim a place than the late
celebrated artist George Morland. Though blest with
talents,
was not without difficulty that he carried his vessel to
Candia, and there presented to the Venetian governor, a
whole ton of salted heads of those who had been killed
in their frequent boarding of his vessel. His Excellency
was astonished, and after bestowing on him all ima-
ginable caresses, he informed the Senate of the gallan-
try of Middleton, who was presented by them with a
chain and medal of gold, as an honourable testimony of
their high esteem, and his own valour. He did not long
enjoy his well-earned reputation, but died on his passage
home.
EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVITY OF THE LAND TORTOISE.
In the Library of Lambeth Palace, is the shell of a
land-tortoise, brought to that place by Archbishop Laud,
about 1633, which lived till the year 1753, when it was
killed by the inclemency of the weather. A labourer
having, for a trifling wager, dug it up from its winter
retreat, neglected to replace it, and it is supposed to have
perished by the frost during the night.—Another tortoise
was placed in the gardens of the episcopal house at Ful-
ham, by the same prelate, when bishop of London, in the
year 1628: but this died a natural death in 1754. The
ages of the animals when first placed in those situations
are not known.
Life of that celebrated Painter and eccentric Character
George Morland, with a Portrait.
In a work, the chief object of which is to delineate the
lives and actions of eccentric and remarkable characters,
few persons can more justly claim a place than the late
celebrated artist George Morland. Though blest with
talents,