to6 SHELLS. Class VI; 



* Fringrego, Wmenho^ Tclejbury, and SaUcoafe, and 

 4 there throw them into the channel, which they 

 4 call their beds or layers, where they grow and 



* fatten, and in two or three years the fmalleft 



* brood will be oyfters of the fize aforefaid. 



4 Thofe oyfters which they would have green, 

 4 they put into pits about three feet deep in the 

 4 fak-marfnes, which are overflowed only atfpring- 

 6 tides, to which they have (luces, and let out 

 4 the fault-water until it is about a foot and half 



* deep. 



4 Thefe pits, from fome quality in the foil co- 

 4 operating with the heat of the fun, will become 

 4 green, and communicate their colour to the 

 4 oyfters that are put into them in four or five days, 

 4 though they commonly let them continue there 

 4 fix weeks or two months, in which time they will 

 4 be of a dark green. 



4 To prove that the fun operates in the greening, 

 4 Tokftniry pits will green only in fummer-, but 

 4 that the earth hath the greater power, Brickel- 

 4 Sea pits green both winter and fummer : and for 

 c a further proof, a pit within a foot of a green- 

 4 ing-pit will not green - 9 and thofe that did green 

 4 very well, will in time lcfe their quality. 



4 The oyfters, when the tide comes in, lie 

 4 with their hollow (hell downwards, and when it 

 4 goes out, they turn en the other fide ; they re- 

 4 move not from their place, unlefs in cold weather, 



4 to cover themfelves in the Cure. 



4 The 



