INDEX. 



193 



Ear-shell, Haliotis tuberculata, 



113. 

 Ear-shells used in Guernsey by 



formers to frighten birds from 



the corn, 114 

 Ear of Venus, 114. 

 Eastbourne oyster beds, 73. 

 Echinidae eaten by the ancients, 



179. 

 Echini, to cook, 180. 

 Echini best in autumn, 180. 

 Echini eaten raw like oysters, 180. 

 Echini move by means of their 



spines, 176. 

 Echinus in holes of rocks, granite, 



sandstone, and limestone, 177. 

 Echinus esculentus, 179. 

 Echinus esculentus the real oursin 



comestible, 178. 

 Echinus granulosus, 179. 

 Echinus in heraldry, 177. 

 Echinus lividus, or purple egg 



urchin, eaten on the west coast 



of Ireland, 177. 

 Echinus lividus eaten at Naples, 



179. 

 Echinus melo, 179. 

 Echinus sphsera, 176. 

 Echinus sphaera, shells of, 177. 

 Eledone eirrhosus, 166. 

 Elenchi, long pearl-shaped pearls 



called, 56. 

 Enemies of the oyster, 70. 

 Enthronization feast of William 



Warham, 133. 

 Escallop in heraldry borne not 



only as a pilgrim's badge, 105. 

 Escallop shell, crest of Bower and 



of Bullingham, 104. 

 Escargotieres, or snail gardens, 12. 

 Escargots, 14. 

 Escourgol, 14. 

 Esnandes, 45. 

 Experiments by M. Cuzent on 



green oysters, 79. 

 Export of snails from Saintonge 



and Aunis to Senegal and the 



Antilles, 15. 

 Extracting copper from oysters,51. 

 Extravagance in jewellery from the 



12th to 16th centuries, 57. 



Eyilkier, 180. 



Falmouth oysters sent to Mare li- 

 nes, 79. 

 Famine of 1816 and 1817, 15. 

 Fish and oyster culture company, 



75. 

 Fishing for mussels in Bay of Con- 



cepcion, 50. 

 Flia, 119. 

 Flitters, 119. 

 Folado, 161. 

 Foreign pearls, 54. 

 Fortunes predicted by snails, 21. 

 Fountain of shells, 111. 

 French mussel breeders, 47. 

 French names for limpets, 121. 

 French names for scallops, 101. 

 Fried oysters another way, 89. 

 Frills or queens, 99. 

 Fuegian women dive for sea-eggs, 



178. 

 Fusus antiquus, red or almond 



whelk, 132. 

 Fusus antiquus used as food, 132. 

 Fusus antiquus, shells of, used as 



lamps, 133. 

 Fusus antiquus sold in London 



under the name of whelk, 124. 

 Fusus antiquus, white variety, 133. 



Gambling by means of snail races, 



21. 

 Gaper, or Mya, 153. 

 Garden snail, Helix aspersa, 1. 

 Garden walks made of cockle 



shells, 28. 

 Gathering cry of pilgrims, 108. 

 Glamorganshire way of pickling 



oysters, 94. 

 Glow-worm, lines on a, 161. 

 Gofiche, or scallop, 101. 

 Goggle, or whelk, 29. 

 Gongola, or Mactra, 152. 

 Googawns and cuckoo-shells, 124. 

 Gower, a Flemish colony, 28. 

 Gower people live on cockles, 28. 

 Gower method of cooking cockles, 



36. 

 Gower recipe for oyster soup, 85. 

 Grand'-pelerine, 101. 



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