INDEX. 



207 



Water rats, and Dreissena poly- 

 morpha, 62. 



"Wedge- shell, or Donax, 150. 



Weight of mussels sent at a time 

 to Billingsgate market, 47. 



Welsh rivers contain pearl-mussels, 

 54. 



Weolc, whelk in Anglo-Saxon is, 

 127. 



Weolc-basn-hewen, meaning of, 

 127. 



Weolc-read, or scarlet dye, 127. 



Wexford oyster-beds, 75. 



Wexford oysters taken to the 

 French coast for laying down, 75. 



Whelk, buckie, or conch, 124-. 



Whelk, an enemy to other mol- 

 lusks, 123. 



Whelk, or purpura, symbol of the 

 city of Tyre, appears on the 

 Tyrian medals, 130. 



Whelk sculptured on font in St. 

 Clement's Church, Sandwich, 

 133. 



Whelk soup, 134. 



Whelk soup, another way of mak- 

 ing, 134. 



Whelk-tingle, or sting-winkle, 

 124. 



Whelk, a species of, used as trum- 

 pets in North Wales by the 

 farmers for calling their la- 

 bourers, 125. 



Whelk, white varieties of the red 

 or almond, 133. 



Whelks for bait, 124. 



Whelks supplied to Billingsgate 

 chiefly from Harwich and Hull, 

 124. 



Whelks taken in wicker baskets, 

 124. 



Whelks, to dress, 134. 



Whelks, Dublin method of cook- 

 ing, 134. 



Whelks borne in heraldry, 133. 



Whelks feed on oysters, 70. 



Whelks, season for, 124. 



Whelks troublesome to lobster- 

 fishers, 124. 



White bones or pearls, 55. 



White oysters from Spain, Bre- 

 tagne, etc., sent to Marennes,79. 



White oyster sauce, 86. 



White snails from Rieti, 10. 



Whitstable oyster beds, 72. 



Whitstable a fishing town of note 

 in the reign of Henry Till., 

 71. 



Whistles made of the shells of 

 Helix pomatia, 21. 



Wigwam Cove, piles of old shells 

 at, 32. 



Winter soup of snails, 24. 



Witch goes to sea in a mussel 

 shell, 49. 



Women of the Shir tribe make 

 girdles and necklaces of river 

 mussel-shells, 117. 



Wood snail, Helix nemoralis, 1. 



Wordsworth's lines on the limpet, 

 118. 



Yoags, 53. 



Youghal way of cooking sugar- 

 loons, 156. 



Zostera marina, 179. 

 Zots-kappen, 43. 



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