LITTORINID^E. PERIWINKLE. 189 



amount was 3394 bags, each containing about 3 

 bushels, and weighing 3^ cwt., so that the periwinkles 

 exported in that year exceeded 10,000 bushels, and 

 weighed nearly 600 tons. 



There are extensive periwinkle grounds at the mouth 

 of Pagham Harbour, which are visited every low tide 

 by women and children, who gather large quantities, 

 and send them to Brighton and Worthing, and they 

 are sold at 8d. per gallon. The Mersey flats supply 

 good periwinkles. 



In the Orkneys, at Stromness, I am told that they 

 are collected in sacks, and sent south to the different 

 markets. Professor Simmonds states that the annual 

 consumption of periwinkles in London, in 1858, was 

 estimated at 76,000 baskets, weighing 1900 tons, and 

 valued at 15,000 ; further, that the inhabitants of 

 Kerara, near Oban, gather them, and get sixpence a 

 bushel for collecting them, and forward them from 

 Oban to Glasgow, thence to Liverpool, en route for 

 London. About thirty tons are sent up to London 

 from Glasgow. Mr. A. Morton tells me that in Jersey 

 the market is supplied with periwinkles brought from 

 Southampton, those found in the island being very 

 small; and occasionally a few pints of the Trochus 

 appear in the market, and are sold as winkles. Trochus 

 zizyphinus, and Trochus cinerarius, are said by M. le Doc- 

 teur Ozenne to be eaten at Toulon, and on the coast of La 

 Manche, and from experience I can recommend the 

 common Trochus crass^s, simply boiled and eaten as 

 periwinkles, the flavour resembling the latter, and 

 being quite as sweet and palatable. In Spain the name 

 for the latter is Garicoles franciscanns, and Minchas. 



Both Trochidoe and Aporrhais pes-pelecani are sold 



