MUSSELS. 20% 
account of the quantities of this animal destroyed 
annually in the neighbourhood of that city. “As 
_an article of food,” he states, “‘ there cannot be used 
fewer than ten bushels per week im Edinburgh and 
MUSSEL. 
Leith, say for forty weeks in the year; in all, 400 
bushels annually. Each bushel of mussels, when 
shelled and freed from all refuse, will probably con- 
tain from three to four pints of the animals, or about 
900 or 1,000, according to their size. Taking the 
latter number, there will be consumed in Edin- 
burgh and Leigh about 400,000 mussels. This is 
a mere trifle compared to the enormous number 
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