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OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



Year. No. of oysters. 



1800 1,200,000 



1801 1,500,000 



1802 1,300,000 



1803 900,000 



1804 1,400,000 



1805 800,000 



1806 500,000 



1807 1,090,000 



1808 1,800,000 



1809 1,200,000 



1810 700,000 



1811 1,130,000 



1812 1,100,000 



1813 600,000 



1814 400,000 



1815 800,000 



1816 2,400,000 



1817 5,600,000 



1818 5,300,000 



1819 6,800,000 



1820 6,700,000 



1821 6,000,000 



1822 11,800,000 



1823 18,000,000 



1824 20,000,000 



1825 20,000,000 



1826 25,000,000 



1827 28,000,000 



1828 33,000,000 



1829 31,000,000 



1830 36,000,000 



183 1 42,000,000 



1832 38,000,000 



1833 41,000,000 



1834 46,000,000 



Year. No. of oysters. 



1835 43,000,000 



1836 40,000,000 



1837 36,000,000 



1838 44,000,000 



1839 42,000,000 



1840 52,ooc,ooo 



1841 56,000,000 



1842 63,000,000 



1843 70,000,000 



1844 68,000,000 



1845 67,000,000 



1846 65,000,000 



1847 71,000,000 



1848 ..... .60,000,000 



1849 52,000,000 



1850 50,000,000 



1851 47,000,000 



1852 20,000,000 



1853 49,000,000 



1854 20,000,000 



1855 20,000,000 



1856 18,000,000 



1857 19,000,000 



1858 24,000,000 



1859 16,000,000 



1860 8,000,000 



1 86 1 9,000,000 



1862 3,000,000 



1863 2,090,000 



1864 2,200,000 



1865 1,100,000 



1866 1,960,000 



1867 2,000,000 



1868 1,079,000 



The records of inspections of the Schleswig-Holstein 

 oyster-beds have furnished the means by which such an 

 impoverishment of these rich beds can be explained. 

 From 1800 to 1815 there were taken yearly from the beds 

 of Cancale less than two million oysters. The oysters, 

 both marketable and spawning, had thus an opportunity to 

 accumulate in greater quantity, to form the increased pro- 

 duction which occurred in 1822. If the French oysters 

 live as long as those of the Schleswig-Holstein beds, some 

 of this stock, which had accumulated during the period of 



