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THE OYSTER. 



Table No. 2. — To Show the Number of Bushels of Oysters 

 TO Each Bushel of Dead Shells. 



Bodkin 



Sandy Point 



Haclcett's Point 



Swan Point 



Chester River 



Corntield Creek 



Thomas' Point 



Tally's 



Scull Hall 



Chink Point 



Cook's Point 



Benoni's Point 



Castlehaven 



Horn Point 



Eastern Bay 



Kent Point 



Tilghnian's Point... 



South River 



Shackel's Point 



Uuvall's Far 



Brewer's Point 



Purdy's Point 



Three Sisters 



Sharp's Island 



Holland Point 



Plum Point 



Little Cove Point.. . 



Hog Island 



Hawk's Nest 



Broom's Island 



Kent Island 



Piney Island 



Fishing Bay 



Hooper's Strait 



James' Point 



Sharp's Island 



Poplar Island 



No Point Bar 



Great Rock 



Turtle Egg Rock ... 

 Great Fox Island... 

 South Marsh Island 



St. Michael's 



Bozman's Flats 



Roaring Point 



1876. 

 Lugger. 



1879. 

 Winslow. 



1.15 



.41 

 1.02 



1882. 



.14 



.14 



1.37 



1. 

 .21 

 .28 



2.85 



2. 

 .83 

 .57 

 .1 

 .14 

 .75 



1883. 



.46 



3. 



4. 



2. 



1.8 

 .89 



3. 



1.16 



4. 



1.57 



1.33 



1.23 

 .17 



6. 



2. 



2. 

 .66 

 .33 

 .33 

 .66 



2.5 



1. 



1.5 

 .28 

 .18 



4. 



1. 

 .5 

 .79 

 .52 

 .25 



In 1876 Lugger found as the average lor twenty beds 3.6!^2 bushels of oysters for 

 each bushel of shells. 



In 1879 Winslow found as the average from seventeen beds l.£f2 bushels of 

 oysters foreach bushel of shells. 



In 1882 we found as the average for fourteen beds 1.31 bushels of oysters for each 

 bushel of shells. 



In 1883 we found as the average for thirty-one beds 1.4-10 bushels of oysters for 

 each bushel of shells. 



