turtle so up

A rich soup, in which the chief ingredient is (or should be) the flesh of the turtle. It is always served at state and civic banquets. [MOCK-TURTLE.] Sir Henry Thompson, in a paper read at one of the Conferences connected with the Fisheries Exhibition held in London in 1883, stated that "conger eel, as few people seem to be aware, is the source of all turtle soup when at its best, the turtle furnishing only the garnish and the name." This statement gave rise to much correspondence at the time. turtle-stone, s. IMG:content-1585.jpg:[blocks in formation] Dor sets hire, where they have been locally termed turtle. stones."-Woodward: Geol. England and Wales, p. 326.