SPAT OF OYSTEE. 15 



grains of rice. Imagine for a moment the 

 millions, I may say billions of young anglers 

 that would have been produced from this 

 single mother-fish. 



The oyster must not be forgotten. T. C. 

 Eyton, Esq., F.L.S., &c., has given us a 

 monograph on its history ; he gives the num- 

 ber of young oysters in the shell of the old 

 one at spawning time, and commonly called 

 "the spat/' as 1,800,000. The oyster must 

 and shall be cultivated in this country. I 

 propose shortly to take the matter in hand. 

 M. Coste and the French pisciculturists have 

 done so much in the way that we ought to 

 be ashamed of ourselves for being all behind- 

 hand in this important matter. 



