INDEX. 



509 



OLAUS MAGNUS, quoted, 13. 

 Once a Week, quoted, 266-269. 

 Oppian, quoted, 104, 123, 124, 313, 330, 



498. 



Grata, Sergius, his epicureanism, 257. 

 Owen, Professor, quoted, 309. 

 Oyster - culture, described, 255-257, 



260-264. 

 Oyster-farms, at Whitstable, 249; in 



'the Colne, 250 ; in the Firth of 



Forth, 251 ; in Ireland, 252 ; in 



Italy, 258 ; in France, 264. 

 Oyster, the, its ancient and modern 



repute, 238-240 ; its associations, 



241, 242; its physiology, 243-246; 



its spawn, 247, 248. 



PARR, the young of the salmon, 25. 



Pearl-oyster, the, natural history of, 

 270. 



Pearls, British, fishery for, 282. 



Pearl, the, what it is, 269-271 ; its 

 ancient celebrity, 272 ; some cele- 

 brated specimens, 274, 275 ; its fish- 

 ery, 275, 284. 



Pennant, quoted, 102. 



Phocidse, the. See SEAL. 



Pilchard, the, natural history of, 169 ; 

 on the Cornish coast, 170 ; modes 

 of catching, 171. 



Plaice, the, described, 92. 



Pleuronectidse, the, or flat-fish, physi- 

 cal characters of, 86. 



Pliny, quoted, 272, 273, 305, 467, 496, 

 497. 



Poaching for salmon, 37. 



Pollack, described, 84. 



Pontoppidan, quoted, 117. 



Prawn, the, natural history of, 236, 

 237. 



"QUARTERLY REVIEW," quoted, 405- 



408. 



REMORA, the, fables respecting, 496- 

 499 ; its sucking -apparatus, 499- 

 501 ; used in catching turtle, 502- 

 506. 



Russel, A., quoted, 19. 



SAixT-Gii/LES-suR-Vic, shrimp-fish- 



ing at, 233. 

 Saint- Hilaire, Geoffrey, quoted, 504. 



Salmon, the, natural history of, 10; 

 its migrations, 13 ; its mode of leap- 

 ing, 14 ; ascending a stream, 15 ; 

 fishing for, at night, 16 ; caught by 

 rod and line, 20, 21 ; spawning of, 

 24 ; growth of, 25 ; velocity of, 26 ; 

 its return to the sea, 27 ; in Alaska, 

 29 ; in Canada, 31 ; in Great Britain, 

 33 ; Greenland, 42. 



Sardine, the, natural history of, 182, 

 183. 



Scomberidse, the, physical characters 

 of, 100, 101. 



Scoresby, Dr., quoted, 326, 366, 370, 

 372, 374, 417-419, 420, 421. 



Scotsman, The, quoted, 444. 



Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, 18, 435. 



Sea-elephant, the, described, 442. 



Seal-fisheries of Newfoundland, 444, 

 et sqq. 



Seal-fishery, the, antiquity of, 455. 



Sea-lion, the, described, 441, 442. 



Seal, the, its characteristics, 427 ; its 

 habitat, 429 ; its food, 430 ; seal- 

 stalking, 431 ; the common seal, 433 ; 

 harp seal, 436 ; bearded seal, 437 ; 

 other species, 438-440 ; its flesh, 456. 



Shad, the, described, 186. 



Shakespeare, quoted, 192, 273. 



Shark, the, description of, 304 ; its 

 range, 305 ; its organization, 309 ; 

 the British species, 311 ; the blue 

 shark, voracity of, 313 ; the white 

 shark, 314 ; its capture, 316-321 ; its 

 destructiveness, 323 ; the thrasher, 

 described, 324 ; the Greenland shark, 

 326 ; the basking shark, 327 ; the 

 hammer-head, 330. 



Shetland, herring-fishery at, 161 ; whale- 

 hunt at, 403, 404 ; seal-fishery of, 462. 



Shoshony Indians, the, salmon-fishing 

 by, 45. 



Shrimp, the, characteristics of, 22&- 

 230. 



Simpson, Sir George, quoted, 433. 



Smyth, Admiral, quoted, 478. 



Sole, the, delicacy of, 90; natural his- 

 tory of, 91 ; range of, 91 ; ancient 

 celebrity of, 91 ; in mythology, 92. 



Sophocles, quoted, 118. 



Spallanzani, quoted, 126. 



Spearing salmon, described, 18. 



Spermaceti, its nature, 379. 



