1366 OYSTERS, AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



"Wash," complement of oysters in a, 362; in Colchester, two pecks, 

 in London, one peck, 362. 



Watch, a miniature, 83. 



Water, fresh and rain, 1233, 1234 ; warmth of, degrees capable of being 

 borne by oysters, 667 ; of the French Mediterranean coast, 667; 

 of Lake Fusaro, propagation of malaria by the, 664, 665 ; of the 

 submarine springs at Tarente, 666 ; very considerably colder in the 

 pares of Saint Vaast-la-Hougue, than in the Tagus, 674 ; analysis 

 of Mediterranean, 678, 679, 1264; density of the, at Giens, 678; 

 Mediterranean, 684 ; of Lake Berre, 684 ; analysis of, taken from 

 the Atlantic Ocean, 1263; of the Charente, weight of, by the 

 areometer, 612; Verdon, 627; Mediterranean, 627; brackish, 

 requisite for oyster culture, weight of by the areometer, 629 ; fresh 

 facility for introduction of, into reservoirs, requisite, 629 ; coast, 

 percentage of salt requisite in, for oyster culture 65 1 ; Sea, weight 

 and density of, 656 ; Sea, temperature at which it forms ice, 656. 



"Watten," 646. 



" Wattenmeer," 646. 



Weed, 1227, 1228. 



Weinkauff, 149, 166, 172. 



Welsh Coast, 145; examples of anomia, 147. 



Welfare, Mr., 1114. 



Wergeland, Lieutenant-General, 671. 



Werner, 24. 



West Bay, oysters from, fattened in Poole beds, 388. 



Wexford, 255, 256. 



Whelks and Whelk-tingles, 200, 229, 232, 236, 1225, 1226, 1227 ; how 

 they devour oysters, 233 ; reward offered by oyster proprietors for, 

 232; oysters killed by, 232; used as bait, 266; the piercing 

 (murex) on the oyster beds in Brittany, 536, 537. 



Whitaker's Journal, cited, no, 121, 122. 



Whitby, 201. 



Whitstable (ref.) 39, 117, 121, 255, 259, 260, 272, 318, 357, 360, 368, 

 387, 3 8 9> 453> 459. 976, 9795 flats (ref.) 1016, 1232, 1233; 

 ,30,000 paid for brood by the people of, 250 ; Mr. S. Sanders' 

 Museum at, of practical benefit to the dredgers, 368, 369, 384 ; 

 capital employed in, annually, in oyster culture, 352 ; antiquity of, 

 as a fishing town of note, 358 ; ancients called " Northwood," 358 ; 



