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little hamlet of New Suffolk was selected to get information and 

 pictures from, because the place has very little else to live upon, 

 and the very air is impregnated with scallops, as you will find if 

 you get to leeward of the great heaps of shells in rear of the shops, 



Light Wind, only Four Dredges orx. 



and no stretch of imagination could suggest that the odors came 

 from the spice islands or were wafted from " Araby the blest." 

 Fortunately, the shops are situated where the smell does not 

 offend the noses of the people in the town, and is gone by the 

 time that the few summer visitors arrive. There is a good hotel 

 here — the Grant House — kept by a man well known in Brooklyn 

 as a caterer, and a few families come to this quiet spot for the 

 summer, while sportsmen fond of duck-shooting gather there in 

 the fall. The fame of the fried scallops at the Grant House ex- 

 tends farther than the flavor of the shells, I was fortunate in 

 securing the services of Captain George W. King, who has 

 dragged the scallop from its lair for the past twenty years, and 

 most of my information comes from him that is not taken from 

 my investigations for the United States Fish Commission in 1880. 

 Opposite New Suffolk is Robbins Island, where the famous club 

 of that name turns out thousands of quail and other game yearly, 

 for their fall shooting. 



The dredge is similar to that used for oysters, consisting of an 

 iron frame about three feet long by half as high, to which the 



