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Xt Ohfervatkns refpeBing Oyjicrs, and the Places ivheri 

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RELAND has very abundant oyfter-banks near the vil- 

 lage of Arklow^ on the eaftern fide of Dublin, from which 

 feed is conveyed to the artificial beds of the capital on the 

 northern fide near Clontarf; and further fouth, at Sutton, 

 not far from Howth. Alfo at Polebeg and Daikey, not far 

 from Dublin ; and particularly Ireland's Eye, where the 

 largeft and bed oyfters lie at the depth of about eighteen or 

 tw^enty fathoms under the water. Likewife to the north of 

 Dublin, near Rufh and Skerries, where the oyfters are falter 

 and harder than in places where more frelb water falls into 

 the fca*. Scotland has great abundance of oyfters near the 

 iiland of Inch Keith, which is not far from Leith. 



I have no intention of enumerating all the places where 

 oyfter-beds are found ; but I ftiall here give a lift of thofe with 

 which I am acquainted, becaufe it perhaps may be of ufe 

 to travellers who think objefts of this kind not unworthy of 

 their notice. Thefe (hell-filh are found in various places on 

 the coaft of France ; fuch as the mouth of the Seine, where, 

 though few in number, they are of an excellent quality. On 

 the coaft of Caen, in Normandy, there is a bank fix miles in 

 length and one in breadth. They are found alfo in the Bay 

 of Ifigny, and in the neighbourhood of Cherbourg. Thofe 

 in particular are highly valued which are collefted at the 

 mouths of fome ftreams where the fea-water is fomctimes 

 thrown entirely back, and which are called hu'ttres de pied. 

 Granville, in Normandy, gains 50,000 livres f by this filhery. 

 On the coaft of Brittany there are very large oyfters, parti- 

 cularly at Concalle, where a great many are preferved in 

 places enclofed for the purpofe. The bank at Painpol is al- 

 moft entirely exhauftc-d. At the mouth of the Loire; between 

 the rocks on the coaft of I'oitou, on the coaft of Aunis and 

 Saintonge, where thofe who make bay-falt iranfplant oyfters to 



'* Narural Hiftory of the County of Dublin, by Rutty, Vol. f. p. 376. 

 f Tliis at Itaft is, alTcrtcd jn Foy^^gf Jans L's d: partementi de la Fimicr. 



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