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three miles long, in the Channel, 341; discovery, new, of, 117; 

 Dutch, high rents charged for, by the Government, 354 ; Dogger 

 Bank, Large, 349 ; Eastbourne, 262 ; French (ref.) 341 ; formation 

 of artificial, by the Britons, 254; Guinehaut, 518 ; Hennebont 

 River, 542 ; Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and Hayling, between, 

 261; Kilkerran Bay, 231; Lough S willy, 257; Marennes, 350 ; 

 Mont St. Michael, 528; Natural, 119; '-Natives" situated 

 on the London clay, 363 ; Netherlands, 696 ; number of oysters 

 dredged in 1 88 1, 596; Newtown and Medina Rivers, 261; 

 Ostend, 270 ; population of, subject to great fluctuations, 124 ; Red 

 Bank, 256 ; River Ranee, 534 ; Schleswig-Holstein, 645, 648 ; 

 extent of, 645 ; sea, at what depth found, 645 ; St. Philibert River, 

 594; becoming less productive, 596 ; Shannon, 256; Trinity River, 

 594 ; Tollesbury and Mersea, 260 ; Thames estuary, 363 ; 

 Venice, 664 ; Whitstable, named the " happy fishing grounds," 

 358 ; annual income from the, 360 ; how they are worked, 362, 



3^3> 364- 

 Oyster Culture and Oyster Fisheries in the Netherlands, cited 114; at 



Grand Camp, 515, 516, 517, 518; difference between English and 

 French, 360 ; in England, 340 ; methods of, should be capable of 

 modification, to suit different natural conditions, 512. 



Oyster Fisheries. Chesapeake Bay, in, 207; French, 350, 351; Hay- 

 ling Island, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348; Milton and 

 Faversham, 261; Paglesham, 231; Scotland, 257, 2j^, 259; 

 methods in Bay of Bengal, 69. 



Oyster Fisheiy Company, business of managed by " the Jury," 360; 

 Fowley, 379; Poole, 376, 379 ; description of samples of oysters 

 sent by the, 387 ; Tollesbury and Mersea, 260 ; AVhitstable and 

 Faversham, 1 2 1 ; value of the stock of oysters held in the private 

 layings of the Whitstable, 360. 



Oyster shells (ref.) 65 ; artificially fecundated, discerned on the seventh 

 day, 626 ; Athenian, use of them, 35 ; changing purple and azure 

 of the, how caused, 88 ; contributing to the crust ot the globe, 

 21 1 ; growth, 85, 86, 87; in thickness and circumference, 91; 

 heaps, vast, of, found in the northern parts of the British Isles, 34 ; 

 at Hissaiiick, 34; how it enlarges, 86; Oyster Island, 199; 

 Necklaces found in early British and Saxon graves, 54 ; no colouring 

 matter mixed with the layers of, and why, 91 ; residence commonly 



