Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

The Mobile Register states that turtle are at times so plentiful that they glut the market. On the 11th ult., a schooner arrived from Brazos with seventeen. Five of these were sent to the watering places on the eastern shore, the smallest weighing 365 pounds, the largest about a thousand more. They appear to be no strangers to the waters of Mobile Bay, as the Register states that some ladies “over the bay,” within three days past, had hooked with red-fish lines two fine green turtles of from 18 to 20 pounds each. They were served up in soups.