Ottuber 1748. 



ner oyfters will keep for years together, and may 

 be fent to the moft diftant parts of the world. 



THE merchants here buy up great quantities 

 cf oyfters about this time, pickle them in the 

 above-mentioned manner, and fend them to the 

 Weft Indies ; by which they frequently make a 

 confiderable profit : for, the oyfters, which coft 

 them five Shillings of their currency, they com- 

 monly fell for a piftole, or about fix times as 

 much as they gave for them ; and fometimes 

 they get even more : the oyfters which are thus 

 pickled have a very fine flavour* The following 

 Is another way of preferving oyfters : they are 

 taken out of the fhells, fried with butter, put 

 into a glafs or earthen veflel with the melted 

 butter over them, fo that they are quite co- 

 vered with it, and no air can get to them. 

 Oyfters prepared in this manner have likewife 

 an agreeable tafte, and are exported to the Wejt 

 Indies, and other parts. 



OYSTERS are here reckoned very wholefome', 

 ibme people allured us, that they had not felt 

 the leaft inconvenience, after eating a confider- 

 able quantity of them. It is likewife a com- 

 mon rule here, that oyfters are beft in thofe 

 months, which have an r in their name, fuch 

 as September^ Qftober, &c. ; but that they are 

 not fo good in other months - y however there are 

 poor people, who live all the year long upon 

 nothing but oyfters with bread. 



THE fea near New Tork > affords annually 

 the greateft quantity of oyfters. Tfiey are found 

 chiefly in a muddy ground, where they He in 

 the flime, and are not fo frequent in a fandy 



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