INDEX. 



201 



Purchase snails and eat them, 18. 



Purple-dye used by theNicaraguan 

 Indians prepared from shellfish, 

 129. 



Purple-dye produced from two 

 kinds of fish, the Buccinum and 

 the Purpura, purple or pelagia, 

 129. 



Purple fish, 127. 



Purple fish, various kinds men- 

 tioned by Athenseus, 130. 



Purple imported from the Pelo- 

 ponnesus in the days of Ezekiel, 

 131. 



Purpura Anglicana, 128. 



Purpura iapillus, the dog-whelk, 

 127. 



Purpura Iapillus used for dyeing 

 linen in Ireland in 1684, 127. 



Purpura Iapillus eaten in France, 

 132. 



Purr, or butterfish, 143. 



Pvrenean name,.caracolo,for snails, 

 'l6. 



Quadrans, a small copper coin, 11. 

 Quadrantes, 80, contained in a 



snail shell, 11. 

 Queen Elizabeth purchases Mary 



Queen of Scots' pearls, 57. 

 Queen Mary's parureof pearls, 58. 

 Queens, or scallops, 99. 



Eadiata, or Echinodermata, 176. 



Ragout of snails, 12. 



Ragout of snails, Spanish recipe, 



24. 

 Ragout of oysters, 90. 

 Raw oysters beneficial to persons 



who suffer from weak digestions, 



82, 

 Razor-fish on the Scotch coast, 42. 

 Razor-fish, to cook, 42. 

 Razor-fish soup, 41. 

 Razor-shell, or Solen, 39. 

 Razor-shells in the Bay of Con- 



cepcion, 41. 

 Razor-shells, collecting, 40. 

 Red Bank oyster-bed, 74. 

 Red whelk, almond whelk, Fusus 



antiquus, 132. 



Red whelk used for bait at Dublin, 



133. 

 Red whelk sold at Liverpool, taken 



on the Cheshire coast, 132. 

 Refuse heaps on the shores of the 



Moray Firth, 34. 

 Renouvelains, 46. 

 Rivers Irt and End, pearls found 



in, 30. 

 Roasted oysters, 90. 

 Rocher de Cancale oysters, 77. 

 Romans partial to snails, 10. 

 Roman ladies wore pearls at night, 



56. 

 Romulus employed the purple dye 



for the trabea, 131. 

 RossmJissler and the empty snail- 

 shells, 20. 

 Rufina, 101. 

 Ruocane, 27. 

 Rush baskets containing snails,14. 



Sabot, or periwinkle, 135. 



Sacred geese in the temple of Jnno, 

 10. 



St. Clement's Church, Sandwich, 

 133. 



St. James of Compo3tella per- 

 formed many miracles, 108. 



St. James, patron of Spain, 110. 



Saintonge and Aunis, snails ex- 

 ported from, 15. 



Salsa de Almejas, 146. 



Sand clam, or Solen, 101. 



Sauces for snads, 26. 



Scalaria communis yields a purple 

 liquor, 132. 



Scallop great,Pecten maximus,100. 



Scallop called the butterfly of the 

 ocean, 97. 



Scallops, to cook, 113. 



Scallop, its movement described 

 by Mr. Gosse, 98. 



Scallops, to dress, 112. 



Scallops at Clavijo dropped there 

 by St. James, 109. 



Scallops, to fry, 99. 



Scallops with matelote sauce, 99. 



Scallop-shell in heraldry, 104. 



Scallop-shell the badge of the pil- 

 grim, 103. 



