INDEX. 



207 



Water rats, and Dreissena poly- 

 morpha, 62. 



Wedge-shell, or Donax, 150. 



Weight of mussels sent at a time 

 to Billingsgate market, 47. 



Welsh rivers contain pearl-mussels, 

 54. 



Weolc, whelk in Anglo-Saxon is, 

 127. 



ATcolc-basn-heweB, meaning of, 

 127. 



Weolc-read, or scarlet dye, 127. 



Wexford oyster-beds, 75. 



Wexford oysters taken to the 

 French coast for laying down, 75. 



Whelk, buckie, or conch, 124- 



Whelk, an enemy to other mol- 

 lusks, 123. 



Whelk, or purpura, symbol of the 

 city of Tyre, appears on the 

 Tyrian medals, 130. 



Whelk sculptured on font in St. 

 Clement's Church, Sandwich, 

 133. 



Whelk soup, 134. 



Whelk soup, another way of mak- 

 ing, 134. 



Whelk-tingle, or sting-winkle, 

 124. 



Whelk, a species of, used as trum- 

 pets in North Wales by the 

 farmers for calling their la- 

 bourers, 125. 



Whelk, white varieties of the red 

 or almond, 133. 



Whelks for bait, 124. 



Whelks supplied to Billingsgate 

 chiefly from Harwich and Hull, 

 124. 



Wlielks taken in wicker baskets, 



124. 

 Whelks, to dress, 134. 

 Whelks, Dublin method of cook- 

 ing, 134. 

 Whelks borne in heraldry, 133. 

 Whelks feed on oysters, 70. 

 Whelks, season for, 124. 

 Whelks troublesome to lobster- 



iishers, 124. 

 White bones or pearls, 55. 

 White oysters from Spain, Bre- 



tagne, etc., sent to Marennes,79. 

 White oyster sauce, 86. 

 White snails from Eieti, 10. 

 Whitstable oyster beds, 72. 

 Whitstable a iishing town of note 



iu the reign of Henry VIIX., 



71. 

 Wliistles made of the sheila of 



Helix pomatia, 21. 

 Wigwam Cove, piles of old shells 



at, 32. 

 Winter soup of snails, 24. 

 Witch goes to sea in u, mussel 



sliell, 49. 

 Women of the Shir tribe make 



girdles and necklaces of river 



mussel-shells, 117. 

 Wood snail. Helix nemoralis, 1. 

 Wordsworth's lines on the limpet, 



118. 



Yoags, 53. 



Youghal way of cooking sugar- 

 loons, 156. 



Zostera marina, 179. 

 Zots-kappen, 43. 



THE END. 



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