CONTENTS 



CHAPTEE I. 



THE OYSTEE IN SEASON. 



The R. canon correct ; Alimentary Qualities of the Oyster ; 

 Profitable Investment ; Billingsgate, and London Consump- 

 tion ; English Oyster-beds ; Jersey Oysters ; French Oyster- 

 beds on the Coast of Brittany 9 



CHAPTER II. 



ANCIENT HISTOEY OF THE OYSTEE. 



The Ancients ; Oysters a Greek and Roman Luxury ; Sergius 

 Orata, and the Oyster-beds of Baia ; Immense Consumption 

 at Rome ; Failure of the Circean and Lucrinian Oyster-beds 

 under Domitian, and Introduction of Rutupians from Britain ; 

 Agricola, Constantino, and Helena ; Athenian Oysters, and 

 Aristides 21 



CHAPTER III. 



MODEEN HISTOEY OF THE OYSTEE. 



FaU of the Rutupian Supremacy ; Louis IV. and WiUiam of Nor- 

 mandy ; Conquest of England, and Revival of Oyster-eating 

 in England ; The Oyster under Legal Protection ; American 

 Oysters 24 



