IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE. 187 



If the tiles off IV Ahilon had not been given away, we would now have 

 40,000, and our production for the year would be doubled. 



Francs. 



1,000 tiles cost 60 



Hydraulic lime for 1,000 tiles costs 6 



The wood for 1,000 tiles costs 10 



Thus the expense for 80,000 tiles, 4,800 



Lime for 100,000 tiles, 600 



For the plateaux, 1,000 



About 200 cubic yards of cultch, 1,500 



7,900 

 Cost of working, purchase of nails, sprigs, skates, boats, 



tools, coal-tar, &c, 2,500* 



Total, 10,400 



For the first year, .10,400 



Cost for the future, ...."... 4,100 



The older the tiles are, the better they can be coated with the lime, 

 which thus becoming thicker, they are less liable to be broken than the 

 new ones, which often arrive cracked ; indeed the loss for breakage is put 

 down at one per cent. 



Supposing even that the spat for 1870 is only at the rate of fifty oysters 

 per tile, that would amount to five millions of oysters, which, in the 

 month of October of the same year, would be worth 100,000 francs, for 

 six months only, that is, it would pay for the station and more than double 

 the cost of the material for a year. 



The stock and the cultch remaining as benefice. 



In the event of these propositions meeting with your approval, the 

 material should be purchased at the latest, towards the 15th of February, 

 1870, in order to have the necessary time for preparation. 



It would also be as well to obtain officially from the administration of 

 bridges and ways, or domains, a grant of about 1,000 metres of the island 

 called " L'lle aux Oiseaux," in order to be able to place our materials for 

 cultivation on it ; the thing exists at present on sufferance. 



On board the Sylphe, the 14th December, 1869. 



The Lieutenant of the vessel, 



Marchand. 



APPENDIX M. 



Society for affording Belief to the Sailoes of Concarneau. 



Rules of the Society. 



Chapter I. — Formation of the Society — its aim — constitution. 



1. A society has been formed for affording relief to the sailors of the 

 maritime circonscription of the sub-division of Concarneau. 



2. This society will be called " A Society for affording Relief to the 

 Sailors of Concarneau." 



3. It will have for its object : — 



1. To meet the pressing wants of the wives, children, fathers, 



mothers, brothers, sisters, orphans, and minors of sailors 

 drowned at sea. 



2. To assist sailors who by accident or loss at sea, are reduced to 



poverty. 



3. To procure medical aid and medicine for sailors that have be- 



come sick at sea. 



* According to the number of collectors. 



