The Indian roofed turtle(Pangshura tecta), is a species of the Pangshura family of turtle found in the major rivers of South Asia.
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“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
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—Bible: Hebrew The Song of Solomon (l. II, 10–12)