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Box Turtle
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The early settlers often consumed box turtles as food. Colonist William Strachey, who was at Jamestown between 1610 and 1611, says " the land tortoises we take and eate daily." |
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Copyright 1997, 1998 by The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Comments mailto:jamestown@apva.org |
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