INDEX. 



377 



LiMAx, page 75 



Limpet, 349 



Lobsters, their history, 14 

 fear thunder, 15 

 known to Ari- 

 stotle, 21 



Long oyster, what, 22 



LUCERNARIA, 110 



Lucrine lake, its oysters, 226 



LUMBRICUS, 63 



Lungs, sea, 125 



M 



Mactra, 192 

 Mammaria, 107 

 Medusa, 121 



excites burning pain 

 when handled, 

 125 

 cured kibed heels, 



ih. 

 phosphorous, ih. 

 Messalinus, loses his life by a 



Leech, 6g 

 MoLLUSCA, 75 

 Murex, £79 



Murices, a dish in Lentu- 

 lus's supper, 138 



productive of the 

 purple dye, 268 

 Mussel, 235 



noxious to many 

 constitutions, 236 

 Mya, I69 



Mya, a species producing 



pearls, page l63 

 Mytilus, 235 



N 



Nacre, 243 

 Nais, 97 



Nautilus, 245 ' 

 Nereis, 93 



illuminates the oceauj 

 ih. 

 Nerita, 344 

 Nettle, Sea, 121 



O 



OXo^ov^icc, 109 

 Oniscus, 37 



Oppian, his account of the 

 Pinnophylax crab, 4 



his account of the 

 Sepia, or Cuttle, 

 118 

 Orata, Sergius, inventor of 



stews for oysters, 226 

 OstrecE crudce, 138 

 Oyster, 225 



British, in great re- 

 pute at Rome, ib. 

 Oyster-beds, account 

 of, 226 



