INDEX. 1295 



1253: Voyage d'Exploration, cited 43, 217; and Messrs. Gerbe, 

 686 ; and the French Government, 482 ; explores the coasts of 

 France and Italy, 482 ; at Lake Fusaro, 482, 509 ; on the question 

 of the growth of oysters, 496; and M. de Bon, 510; and the Col- 

 lege of France, 510; and the Marine Department, 511 ; unsuc- 

 cessful efforts of in the Bay of Brest, in 1857, 536 ; establishment 

 of model pares in Arcachon Basin, by, 586 ; unproductive experi- 

 ments by, on the Mediterranean coasts, 605 ; at Lake Fusaro, 663 ; 

 experiments by at Lake Thau, 686 ; unsuccessful experiments by, 

 at St. Tropez, 687. 



Courseulles-sur-Mer, 512, 524, 663 ; notabreeding ground, 512; purpose 

 served by the ponds of, 513 ; qualities of the oyster of, 513 ; method 

 of working the pares at, 513; description of the pares at, 513; 

 measurement of pare at, 513; process of growing oysters, 514; 

 teaching oysters, 514; annual supply of oysters, 515; sold by 

 classes, according to size, 515; disposition of canals, 602; sea 

 water never enters the pares at, 602 ; rapid fattening of oysters at, 

 602. 



Coverley, Sir Roger de, 27. 



Cow Bay, 896. 



Cowper, quoted, 27, 62. 



Cox, Dr. J. C., 864. 



Crab, The, an enemy to the oyster, 231, 232, 265. 

 Pearls found in a, 945. 



Crabs used as bait, 266. 



"crassats," 571, 575, 579, 5^6, 614, 621,631,633,634,677,1252, 1253. 



Crastorbe, 575, 576. 



era-van ts, 533. 



Creggauns, 200. 



Crenulated (Lat. crena, a notch) having the edge cut into very small 

 scollops, 1 80. 



Cretaceous (Lat. creta, chalk) composed of or like chalk, 208, 210. 



Crisfield, 207, 240. 



Croisac, 582. 



Cromarty, 207. 



Cromwell, History of Colchester, cited 259. 



Crouch, The, 249. 



Croulin Island, Skye, 147. 



