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Haug," (pronounced quaw-hog). The best " Wampum," was made 

 of this shell, whence the scientific name, and it is still useful, not as 

 coinage, but as forage. 



It may here be observed that the commercial and gastronomic 

 term- '' clam " does not now admit of scientific classification. Venn* 

 mercenaria, as just mentioned, is a "clam," and Mya Jfaenarim 

 (quite as different from it as a black buck from a bison) is a 

 "sand-clam/' and so forth. 



As for " clam-chowder/' it is very nice ; but I fancy the clam ha& 

 nearly as much to say to it as the limestone had to the limestone 

 soup in Lever's 3tory. 



A " clambake," is a "stupendous and terrible spree," in whicfe 

 you bake everything you can think of along with the clams, eat the 

 other things, drink everything you can think of, and leave the clams 

 to be eaten by any one who has no better to do, bar one or two r 

 just to satisfy your soul, There is nothing on earth so hypocritical 

 as a " clambake," But it is a fine spree for all? that, or because of 

 it, the hypocrisy is so very transparent that it does'nt hurt any 

 one's conscience much, and the clambakers go away laughing at 

 each other like Cicero's augurs. I wish some one would introduce 

 clambakes into Bombay. 



I am not sure that we have any Mactrm, though the accommoda- 

 tion is good for If. Stultorum. 



Of Tellinidce, I think I have got broken valves of T. pianissimo, 

 and ciiphos ; dead, of course. We have a Razor-fish fSolen), 

 which I cannot distinguish from the British Solen Siliqua, except 

 by its inferior size. It is, like the British species, to be got in 

 the sand at low-water of spring tides, and it may be worth saying 

 that the Razor-fkhes are equal, as eating, to scallops. Like scallops^ 

 they should be cooked. Boiled Razor- fish is good enough, but 

 " eeu gratin," or iC a la Hollandaise," is better ; looks like Maccaroni^ 

 and is much more to the purpose- 



Cultellus politus -of the same family is a very pretty shell; common 

 (as a dead shell) on our shores. 



Passing over some families not well represented here, we come to 

 the Pholadidce, or boring molluscs, who compel our attention, like 

 dynamiters, by threatening our lives and public buildings, such at 

 least as they can get at, namely, ships and piers, and the like. 



The type of the family is the English Pholas dactylvs or Pid- 

 dock; and one species of these seas, Pholas bakeri, requires a better 



