Il6 THE OYSTER. 



PLATE IX. 



FIGURE i. A pipe, upon the bowl of which six oys- 

 ters have grown ; from the Chesapeake Bay. 



FIGURE 2. An oyster shell upon the inside of which 

 about one hundred and fifty young- oysters have fas- 

 ened themselves. This is from the lot of shells which 

 were sold by Mr. Church, of Crisfield, from the pile of 

 shells at his packing-house, to an oyster farmer in Long 

 Island Sound. Mr. Church visited the farm five weeks 

 after the shells were shipped, and took up a number of 

 the shells, and he states that the one which is here fig- 

 ured is a fair sample. 



