INDEX. 



308 



haemorrhage, if bruised and 



applied, 265. 

 Polypus, its dangerous powers, 250. 

 Polypus, symbol of Messina, figured 



on a coin of that city, 265. 

 Pompeii, collection of shells dis- 

 covered at, 117. 

 Pontoppidan's description of the 



kraken, 255. 

 Pop, 247. 

 Pope, the, uses a purple robe to 



celebrate Mass in Lent and Ad- 

 vent, 206. 

 Porphyra shellfish, discovery of, 202. 

 Potage aux chobettes. 20. 

 Potage a la Poissoniere, 153. 

 Poiilp, habits of, 248. 

 Poiilp in the Mediterranean, 247. 

 Poiilp, large, at Nice, 249. 

 Poiilps live in holes amongst the 



rocks, 248. 

 Poultry fed on Patella vulgata, 



177. 

 Poultry fed with lustreless pearls 



and grain, to restore brilliancy to 



the pearls, 100. 

 Powder-horns, 86. 

 Praire, la, 31. 

 Price of Haliotidae in the Channel 



Islands, 182. 

 Price of Helix aspersa, 228. 

 Price of Helix nemoralis, 228. 

 Price of Helix pisana at Marseilles, 



229. 

 Price of Helix pomatia, 230. 

 Price of Helix vermiculata, 229. 

 Price of mussels taken at Lymp- 



stone, 62. 

 Price of scallops, 122. 

 Prices of Scotch pearls, 70. 

 Professional pilgrim at Santiago de 



Compostella, 116. 

 Proper seasons for visiting Spain for 



scientific purposes, 232. 

 Proportions for mixing the juice of 



the buccinum and pelagium for 



dyeing wool, 203. 

 Protection to English pilgrims, 112. 

 Provencaux names for Helix aperta, 



227. 

 Psammobia veBpertina, or the setting 



sun, 18. 



Psammobia vespertina eaten at Ken- 

 mare, 18. 

 Psammobia vespertina, localities for, 



19. 

 Pudworm, 4. 

 Puerto, Santa Maria, supplies oysters 



to Madrid, 142. 

 Pullers, sugar-loons, or colliers, 9. 

 Pullet, or cullyock, 25. 

 Pullet, or cullyock, used for bait, 



26. 

 Purchase snails and eat them, 231. 

 Purple dye used by the Nicaraguan 



Indians, prepared from shellfish, 



202. 

 Purple dve produced from two kinds 



of shellfish, 202. 

 Purple-fish, various kinds mentioned 



by Athenaeus, 202. 

 Purple imported from the Pelopon- 

 nesus in the days of Ezekiel, 203. 

 Purpura Anglicana, 201. 

 Purpura lapillus, the dog-whelk, 



200. 

 Purpura lapillus used for dyeing 



linen in Ireland in 1684, 200. 

 Purpura lapillus eaten in France, 207. 

 Purpura lapillus eaten at Hastings, 



207. 

 Purr, or butterfish, 26. 

 Pyrenean name, caracolo, for snails, 



229. 



Quadrans, a small copper coin, 223. 

 Quadrantes, eighty, contained in a 



snail shell, 223. 

 Quahog, or large hard clam, 34. 

 Queen Elizabeth purchases Mary 



Queen of Scots' pearls, 95. 

 Queen Mary's parure of pearls, 94. 

 Queens, or scallops, 122. 

 Quiquirigallas, 24. 



Radiata, or Echinodermata, 258. 



Ragout of cockles, 53. 



Ragout of mussels, 83. 



Ragout of oysters, 161. 



Ragout of oysters, Ostraa Guisadas, 



161. 

 Ragout of snails, Spanish recipe, 242. 

 Ran, 178. 

 Raucan, 104.. 



