VI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEK IV. 



THE OYSTER AT HOME. 



Its Nature, Colour, and Structure ; Natural Food ; Perception 

 of the changes of Light ; Uses of the Celia ; Fecundity and 

 Means of Propagation ; Age ; Fossil Oysters in Berkshire 

 and in the Pacific ; Power of Locomotion . . .28 



CHAPTER V. 



THE OYSTER IN ITS NEW SETTLEMENT. 



Dredging for Oysters ; Oyster-beds and their formation; Sergius 

 Orata ; Pliny the Elder ; Baia and the Lucrine Sea ; Roman 

 Epicurism and Gluttony ; Martial and Horace, Cicero and 

 Seneca ; Masticate Oysters, and do not bolt them whole ; 

 Mediterranean and Atlantic Oysters ; Agricola and the 

 Rutupians; Apicius Cnelius, Trajan, Pliny, and the Viva- 

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CHAPTER YI. 



THE OYSTER ON ITS TRAYELS. 



The Isle of Sheppey, the Medway, and Whitstable ; Milton, 

 Queenborough, Rochester, and Faversham Oysters; Col- 

 chester and Essex Beds; Edinburgh Bandores and Aber- 

 dours ; Dublin Carlingfords and Powldoodies ; Poole and 

 its Oyster-bank ; Cornish Oysters and the Helford Beds ; 

 Poor Tyacke, and How he was Done ; Dredgers and theii* 

 Boats; Auld Reekie's Civic Ceremonial; Song of the 

 Oyster ; its Voyage to Market, and Journey by Coach and 

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