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Rau-cau, 325 



Ray skin. 262 



Razor clarn, 146 



Reef or fine toilet sponge, 175 



Ribbon isinglass, 251 



River pearls, 428 



Rouen oil, 154 



Roumanian amber, 477 



Round clam, 146 



Russian isinglass, 241 



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Saddle Rock oyster, 142 



Salmon, aggregate value of British 



and Irish fisheries, 74 

 as food, 6 



in British Columbia, 76 

 statistics of London sales, 74 

 Salmon fishery, 73 



in New Brunswick, 75 

 in Norway, 75 

 Salt in Australia, 348 

 in Austria, 344 

 in California, 344 

 in Cochin China, 347 

 in India, 346 

 in Portugal, 345 

 in the United States, 344 

 manufacture in France, 339 

 Sandre oil, 215 

 Sankka or shell bracelet, 291 

 Sardine fishery of France, 17, 77 



oil, 217 

 Sardines, American, 81 



used as manure in Japan, 8 1 

 Sawfish, oil from, 216 

 Scabeccio, definition of, 87 

 Scales of fish, uses of, 258 

 Scallop shells, uses of, 298 

 Scotch pearls, 429 

 Seal fishery, 199 



oil, 200 

 Seal skins, 202 



exported from Norway, 21 

 value of the imports, 21 

 Sea-urchins, 121 

 Seaweed and its uses, 311 



collection of, in France, 317 

 in Japan, 317 



Seaweed for manure, 314 



as food, 32 1 

 Seer- fish, 130 

 Seine nets, 62 

 Sephen skin, 262 

 Sepia, 303 



Shad fishery in North America, 60 

 Shagreen, 263 

 Shank or chank shell, 289 

 Shark skin, 261 

 Shark fins, 235, 237 



fishery, 226 



Sharks, varieties of, 226 

 Sheep-wool sponge, 176 

 Shell bangles or bracelets, 2oS 

 cameos, 274 

 fish-hooks, 297 

 sand, 285 



Shells as currency, 278, 281 

 calcined, 270 

 composition of, 268 

 domestic uses of, 297 

 sales of, in London, 271 

 useful applications of, 270 

 value of British imports, 287 

 Shrimp fishery, English, 102 

 Shrimps, dried, trade in, 104 

 Silicious sponges, 194 

 Singapore, imports offish, 15 

 Slips, a name for soles, 129 

 Snoods, definition of, 27 

 Soles, 129 



South Sea pearl shells, 377 

 Spent fish, definition of, 47 

 Spermaceti or head matter, 205 

 Sponge, chemical analysis of, 178 

 descriptions of, 155 

 fishery of Tunis, 190 

 for stuffing beds, 1 78 

 value of imports, 21 

 Sponge fisheries, American, 170 



of the Bahamas, 1 74 

 Sponges, commercial grades of, 159 

 cultivation of, 182 

 French classification of, 193 

 imports of, from the Mediter- 

 ranean, 192 



scientific divisions of, 156 

 of the Mediterranean, 183 

 Soft clam, 146 

 Spring herrings, 52 

 Squids for fish bait, I2O 

 Stock-fish or round-fish, 32 





