230 OSTREA. OYSTER. Class VI, 



* There are great penalties, by the iVdmiralt}'" 

 ' court, laid upon those that fish out of those 

 ' grounds which the court appoints, or that 

 ' destroy the cultch, or that take any oysters 

 ' that are not of size, or that do not tread 

 ^ under their feet, or throw upon the shore, 



* a fish which they call a Five-finger* resem- 

 ^ bling a spur-rowel, because that fish gets into 

 ' the oysters wiien they gape, and sucks them 

 ' out. 



' The reason why such a penalty is set upon 



* any that shall destroy the cultch, is, because 

 ' they find that if that be taken away, the ouse 



* will increase, and the muscles and cockles will 

 ' breed there, and destroy the oysters, they 



* having not whereon to stick their spat. 



' The oysters are sick after they have spat ; 



* but in June and July they begin to mend, and 

 Mn August they are perfectly well : the male 

 ^ oyster is black-sick, having a black substance 

 ' in the fin ; the female zvhite-sick, (as they 

 ^ term it) having a milky substance in the fin. 

 ' They are salt in the pits, Salter in the layers, 

 ^ but Salter at sea.' 



To this I beg leave to join a sort of present 

 state of this article, borrowed from the 84th 



* AsTEPaAS glacialis, the common Sea Star. 



