716 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



common sense, energy and perseverance, can make it 

 assume, will, in the near future, form an essential part of 

 England's commercial progress and prosperity. 



In the volumes alluded to there is so much valuable 

 information, written in so pleasing a style that I am almost 

 at a loss to know where to begin or where to end, where 

 to abridge or where to quote in full. And, even with that 

 problem solved, I regret to say that, in the extraction of 

 what is really only a mere fragmentary portion of the 

 scientific works in question, want of space has forced me 

 to condense even that, but always with care that the reader 

 should experience no difficulty in following the authors in 

 their narrative. 



Narratives of methods and results relative to oyster 

 culture, so replete with all that bears the stamp of self- 

 evidence, upon its appeal to the reader's comprehension of 

 the subject with all that can and does fulfil the English 

 ostraculturist's most ardent desire in experimental result 

 and financial success with all that matter-of-fact-eloquence 

 that should thrill and rouse our merchants from their slug- 

 gish apathy, and make them clamour for the adoption of 

 the American methods, or at least a trial thereof, in most, 

 if not in all of their developments, by those who choose to 

 follow their teaching yes, so replete with these and many 

 more happy outcomes of a wise administration, that I 

 respectfully venture to commend this chapter to the con- 

 sideration of our worthy Legislators, convinced that, should 

 they ever condescend to act upon the American method of 

 oyster culture, they would merit the right of being con- 

 sidered benefactors of the British public. 



It is not in a spirit of harsh criticism, but in the hope 

 that our people may be awakened to their own interest, 

 that I am about to point out the distressing difference 



