3^4 Obfervat'ions refpeSiing OjJIcrs, 



marfliy places, in which they acquire a better quality, thougfe 

 they never become fo good as the green ones of SaintOnge j 

 alfo h la tete de Buch, near Bourdeaux. In Languedoc, near 

 Cape Leucate, there is an oyfter-bank at the depth of twenty- 

 feet. At the mouth of the Rhone, on the coaft of Provence. 

 At Paris thofe oyfters are moft eftecmcd which come from 

 Bretagne, Rochclle, Bourdeaux, and particularly from Medgc. 



The Dutch have fome ovfter-beds on the coaft of Zealand, 

 near ZieVikzee; oyfters are kept there alfo in pits as well as 

 at the town of Brouwerftiaven, and particularly at Petten in 

 North Holland : thofe of the laft-mentioned place are much 

 efteemed, and are known under the name of Petten oyfters. 

 For thefe pits * many ftiip loads are tranfporled every year 

 from the coafts of England. 



There are exceedingly rich oyfter-banks in the duchy of 

 Holftein and in the neighbourhood of Jutland, which fup- 

 ply moft of the oyfters ufed in the northern part of Ger- 

 many. I entertained hopes that we ftiould have obtained a 

 complete defcription of thefe oyfter-beds in the highly valu- 

 able colleAion of the Provhizial-hlatterti of Schlefwig-Hol- 

 ftein, as well as of the trade to which they give rife; but hi- 

 therto this hope, as far as I know, has never been realifed. 

 It gives me greater pleafure, therefore, to be able to fupply 

 in fome meafure this deficiency by the information on that 

 fubjeft, which, by the means of Profeflbr Tychfen and 

 M. Adler, I obtained from M. Todfen, a clergyman at 

 Uberg near Tondern. 



The royal oyfter-beds lie all together on the weftern coaft 

 of the duchy of Schlefwig, betweeiTthe iflands Fanoe, Rom or 

 Romoe, Sylt, Fohr, Amrom, Nordftrand, Silworm, Siide- 

 rog, and extend from the diftrift of Ripen to Helgoland. 

 The number of the beds from which oyfters can be fifhed is 

 at prefent reckoned to be fifty : the greater part of them take 



• Oejlerpulten "waarin de oejlcn ^efpeend luorJen. Oyfter-banks firft 

 arofe on the coafts of Holland about the beginning of this century, a few- 

 years before it began to be obferved that ftiips were deftroyed by fea- 

 worms, as we are informed by Sellius in his H'lft. xat. tcredinum, p. 289. 

 See alfo Leeuwenhock's Arcana fiaturar, or ExperimoUa et contemplat. 



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