and the Places where found, C37 



beds where they are found : if this is the cafe, they may be 

 eafily known from the young oyfters by their form, and the 

 fize of their fhell. 



The oyfter-banks of Jutland lie on the eaftern fide of the 

 northern extremity, near Fladftrand, a market-town, where 

 there is a paflage over to Norway; alfo at the ifland of Leflbe, 

 fituated in the Cattegat, three miles from Sabie, in the dif- 

 tri6l of Aalborg. Refpecling this fiilicry, feveral regulations 

 have been publifhed, one of which is dated February 1709. 

 Attempts have often been made to tranfplant oyfters to the 

 large bays which extend from the Cattegat twenty miles 

 acrofs the country, and nearly interfe6l it; but they have 

 been attended with as little fuccefs as thofe on the coaft of 

 Sceland. 



Norway has excellent oyfters, and in great abundance on 

 the weftern coafts. The beft are thofe found on the rocks, 

 and called rock-oyfters. Many of them are pickled, and 

 fent in jars and other veffels, which contain the fixteenth 

 part of a barrel, to different parts of the Eaft Sea. Thefe 

 oyfters often contain pearls ; but they are not of a large fize, 

 and never have complete fplendour. 



Sweden has excellent oyfters on the coaft of Bahus-Lan, 

 near the iiland of Kaftero, a mile weft from Stromftad, from 

 which they are fent, as well as from Udewalla, to every part 

 of the kingdom. The fifliermen there pretend that, when an 

 oyfter-bed has been exhaufted, it requires from four to five 

 years before it is again flocked *. 



Italy has oyfters of diftereut qualities. Thofe found near 

 Ancona are of a large fize, but not very well tafted. Thofe 

 are accounted the beft which are produced in prodigious 

 multitudes near Tarento, in the fea called Mare Piccolo, or 

 // Picciol Mare, which is a large bay that extends paft Ta- 

 rento towards the north-caft. I mention this circumftance, 

 becaufe in moft of the geographical books and charts thefe 

 names are wanting. I found them only in an old chart of 

 the Terra di Otranto, by J. Janfon, though they often occur 

 in books of travels. 



• Kalm's WaftgCtha och Bahuflanfdka rcfa. Stockholm 1746. 8vo. 

 ^.119 and 457, 



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