134 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



Roman predilection for, a sanitary one, 40 ; rough whelks, 

 destructive to, 241 ; Rutupian, 35, 38 ; sand imbedded, cause of, 

 384, 385 ; sand destructive to, 239, 1231 ; sausages, 296 ; scalloped, 

 297, 298 ; scarcity and deamess of, in 1876, and the cause thereof, 

 257 ; Seelander, 274 ; Scotch Pandore, those on West Coast, 

 Irish, American, and Lisbon, the beards are black, 259 ; shelled, 

 338 ; size of, at one, two, three, four, and five years old, 109, 157, 

 447 ; snow, destructive to, 239 ; steak, 297 ; stewed, 288, 289, 290, 

 291 ; Stockholm, price of, at, 314; stone age, in the, 154, 191 ; 

 slaves employed in procuring, 49 ; slow conveyance of, 6 1 ; 

 Society, The, 543 ; Song of the, 266 ; soup, 284, 285, 286 ; species 

 of, usually eaten, 313 ; speculations of a human stomach on, 311 ; 

 312, 313; street, 250; supposed impregnation of, through the 

 agency of milt floating in the water, no ; Suppers, Pontifical, 56 ; 

 susceptible of cold, the young, 107, 115, 116, 122 ; sweetest morsel 

 of the, 280; the Carlingford, 255; the Circe, 275; the Chinese, 

 276 ; the Jubilee, 257 ; the Lissadell, 255 ; the Malahide, 255 ; 

 the Middlesburger, 274 ; the Norwegian, 273, 274 ; the Redbank, 

 255 ; the Scottish, 273 ; the Seelandere, 274 ; the Vieringer, 274 ; 

 the Vliessinger, 274 ; toasted, 303 ; transplanted, will they breed, 

 125; travelling, deleterious to, 338; virtues of, 271, 272, 518; 

 Walfletes, 58 ; Wangeroger, 274 ; what ladies should eat, 323 ; 

 what kind to buy, 332 ; when proverbially fit for human food, 242, 

 243 ; women as vendors of, 59, 60. 

 Oysterboume, 261. 



Pacific Ocean, The, 190. 



Paglesham Oyster, The, 437 ; state of, expenditure upon, receipts of, 



437, 438, 439- 

 Paimpol, 581. 



Palavas, Pond of, 635. 



Paleontology, 26, 196. The science of extinct organisms or fossil 



remains. 

 Palissy, 24, 25. 



