many purveyors of food. Sanitary jam, sanitary preserved 

 pineapple, sanitary lobsters, and so on, might attract much 

 custom from careful housekeepers. 



The total extent of the W-hitstable fisheries is somewhere 

 about six square miles. Like other large oyster grounds, 

 the quality varies in different parts, soms parts being more 

 fit for breeding oysters than for fattening, but a great part 

 being better adapted for fattening. Of this total extent of 

 oyster beds, the Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company own 

 the pick, being about if miles from north to south, 

 and two miles from east to west, the actual laying ground 

 being a mile square, the rest being used for moorings, 

 marked off by fixed beacons in the shallow water, or 

 "shalls" (pronounced shawls), as they are known locally, 

 and by moveable anchored beacons like scaffold poles, in 

 deep water, guarded day and night, all the year round, by 





The License of Mortmain. 



