INDEX. 



301 



Oyster-shells as manure, 148. 

 Oyster-shells used by the Romans 



as tooth-powder, 148. 

 Oyster-shells used in skin diseases, 



148. 



Oyster soup, 152. 

 Oyster soup with fish stock, 152. 

 Oyster soup, another way, 152. 

 Oyster soup, to make an, 153. 

 Oyster steak, 165. 

 Oysters, to stew, 157. 

 Oysters stewed, 158. 

 Oysters stewed with milk, 159. 

 Oysters, to stew another way, 158. 

 Oysters, to stew the French way, 



159. 



Oysters on toast, 171. 

 Oyster toast, 171. 



Pao-Hing-Ch, remedy for small- 

 pox, 102. 



Pacauta, 93. 



Padstow, large mussels from, 67. 



Paignton method of cooking Cardium 

 rusticum, 57. 



Palostrega, 86. 



Palourde, or tapes, 27. 



Palourde, or scallop, 104. 



Pall Mall, 44. 



Pandore oysters, 136. 



Parisians eat snails for breakfast, 

 232. 



Patella atheletica, 177> 



Patelle, or limpet, 173. 



Patella reale, 187. 



Patella vulgata, 172. 



Patellidae, 172. 



Patellidte eaten by the ancients, 1 75. 



Patgellidas, 178. 



Pearls, artificial, 75. 



Pearl-fishery at Bahrein, 98, 



Pearls called bones or stones by 

 Greek authors, 90. 



Pearls said to be congealed dew- 

 drops, 47. 



Pearl-diver's badge of office, 101. 



Pearl-fishery in Ceylon, 98. 



Pearl-fishery on the coast of Colum- 

 bia, 98. 



Pearls, to keep colour of, 47. 



Pearl-fisheries of Condatchy, Aripo, 

 and Manaar, 97. 



Pearl-fisheries mentioned bv Marco 



Polo, 92. 



Pearl-fishery at Omagh, 72. 

 Pearl-fisheries on the Terski coast, 



101. 



Pearl-fishery at Tutikorin, 101. 

 Pearls found in the Aplysia, 70. 

 Pearls found in the oyster, scallop, 



cockle, and periwinkle, 69. 

 Pearls kept in magnesia, 47. 

 Pearls like black muscades, 95. 

 Pearls used in medecine, 102. 

 Pearls in common mussel, 69. 

 Pearl mussels in Loch -Earn, Tay, 



&c., 71. 

 Pearl necklace of the king of 



Maabar, 92. 

 Pearls, tears of Chinese mermaids, 



47. 

 Pearls found in mother-of-pearl 



shells at Birmingham, 101. 

 Pearls preferred to other ornaments 



until the death of Maria Theresa, 



93. 

 Pearls placed in the mouth of a dead 



person, 97. 



Pearls used in Irish religious orna- 

 ments, in 15th and 16th centuries, 



72. 



Pearls significant of tears, 96. 

 Pearl oyster, Meleagrina margariti- 



fera, 89. 

 Pearl necklace of the Empress of 



the French, 97. 

 Pearl necklaces and chains for the 



hands and feet; worn by the 



Medes and Persians, 90. 

 Pearls in Unio margaritiferus, 70. 

 Pearl called la Peregrina, 96. 

 Pearl pounded and drank by Sir 



Thomas Gresham, 91. 

 Pearl-shell snail, Turbo cornutus, 



182. 

 Peasants near La Rochelle gather 



snails to send to America, 227. 

 Pechinas llisas, 23. 

 Pecten Jacobaeus, 107. 

 Pecten maximus, 103. 

 Pecten opercularis. 120. 

 Pecten varius, 123. 

 Pectunculus eaten in the Mediter- 

 ranean, 85. 



