CHAPTER XIX. 



OYSTER CULTURE IN ENGLAND. 



THE POOLE OYSTER FISHERIES. 



POOLE AND ITS OYSTER TRADE IN OLDEN TIMES G. C. BENTINCK, 

 ESQ., M.P., AND THE p'oOLE FISHERMEN SUICIDAL POLICY OF 

 THE FISHERMEN THE FRENCH SYSTEM TRIED IN POOLE 

 HARBOUR UNSUCCESSFUL; AND WHY THE POOLE OYSTER 

 FISHERIES COMPANY OPPOSITION FRUSTRATED MEDICAL 

 OPINION ON THE POOLE OYSTERS THE TAGUS OYSTER IN 



FRANCE RESULTS OF AN AFTERNOON'S DREDGING PRIMITIVE 



NOTIONS OF THE FISHERMEN CONCERNING OYSTERS, ETC. 

 LARGE-SIZED OYSTERS PEARL OYSTERS. 



" POOLE points proudly to her oyster-bank, and tells 

 miraculous tales of her fishery, and of the number of 

 oysters she sends to the London market, besides those 

 which are pickled at sea for the export trade to lands where 

 a fresh oyster is still a luxury unknown. The Poole fisher- 

 men who open oysters in their boats for pickling are 

 compelled by an Act of Legislature, to throw the shells 

 on the strand, and these, in the course of time, have formed 

 a strong barrier against the waves of the sea at the flow of 

 the tide, having the appearance of an island at high-water ; 

 and, simple as it is, such is the sole construction of this 

 celebrated breakwater." " The Oyster" &c. 



