From July 1896 issue of Scientific American.  "Our illustration presents a view of a gigantic land turtle from the Egmont islands, located to the northeast of Madagascar.  The length, in a straight line, of the animal's carapax is 4.33 feet."  It weighed 528 pounds. and was thought to be a Testudo daudinii.  In fact the giant land tortoise is thought not to have lived in Chagos, in which case the location was incorrect.

