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"Wilkes, or periwinkles, are not so large here 

 as in the Islands of Scilly, and in other parts of 

 Europe, though very sweet. 



The sea snail horn, is large, and very good meat. 

 They are exactly shaped as other snail horns are. 

 Fidlars are a sort of small crabs, that lie in holes 

 in the marshes. The raccoons eat them very much . 

 I never knew any one try whether they were 

 good meat or no. 



Runners live chiefly on the sands. But some- 

 times run into the sea. They have holes in the 

 sand beaches and are a whitish sort of a crab. 

 Though small, they run as fast as a man, and are 

 good for nothing but to look at. 



Spanish oysters have a very thin shell, and 

 rough on the outside. They are very good shell 

 fish, and so large, that halt a dozen are enough to 

 satisfy an hungry stomach. 



The flattings are inclosed in a broad, thin shell, 

 the whole fish being flat. They are inferior to no 

 shell fish this country affords. 



Finger fish are very -plentiful in this country. 

 They are of the length of a man's finger, and lie 

 in the bottom of the water about one or two feet 

 deep. They are very good. 



Shrimps are very plentiful and good, and are to 

 be taken with a small bow net in great quantities. 

 The small cockles are about the bigness of the 

 largest English cockles, and differ nothing from 

 them, unless in the shells, which are striped cross- 

 wise, as well as longwise. 



