480 



Index. 



Codfish, mode of catching, by hand- 

 lines, set lines, and nets, 34 

 process of curing, 29 

 Cod fisheries, number of French 



vessels employed in, 39 

 Cod fishery, French, at Newfound- 

 land, 17 

 Iceland, 17 

 of Ireland, 26 

 of Newfoundland, 26 

 of Scotland, quantity 

 cured, 25 

 Cod-liver oil, 213 



value of the imports, 21 



Cod oil, 213 



Cod tongues and sounds, 31 

 Combou or kombou, 329, 334 

 Commercial products, variety ob- 

 tained from the sea, i 

 Conch pearls, 408 

 shells, 273 

 Cones, uses of, 294 

 Coral, Algeria, 454 



beads, 442, 447, 456 

 classification of, 455 

 commercial varieties of, 443 

 composition of, 438 

 exports from Sardinia, 449 

 imports into England, 446 

 France, 445 

 United Kingdom, 

 460 



Indian trade in, 461 

 value of the imports, 21 

 Coral fisher}% 450 



boats employed in, 458 

 Cornish sardines, 64 

 Cowries, African trade in, 269 

 as currency, 279 

 commercial uses of, 277 

 value of the imports, 21 

 Crab-pots, 93 

 Crabs, how sold, 93 



in Norway, loi 

 Crin vegetal, 313 

 Crustaceans, 90 



" Crown full," definition of, 47 

 Cummelmums, 264 

 Cup-shaped sponges, 168 

 Cuttle-fish dried, 1 16, 120 

 bone, 121 



D. 



Diving-bells for sponge fishing, 190 

 Diving for pearls, 427 



for pearl shells in the Pacific,v 

 386, 394 

 Dog-fish skins, 262 

 Drift-nets, 49 

 Dugong oil, 209 

 Dulse, 336 

 Dun-fish, 31 



Dutch herring fishery, 54 

 Dyes from the mollusca, 303 



E. 



Ear-shells, 372, 398 

 Egyptian pearl shells, 378 



F. 



Fish as food, 9 

 bones, 257 



fresh- water, sold in Paris, 18 

 flour, 264 

 guano, 154 

 hooks of shell, 297 

 inexhaustible supply of, 5 

 maws, eastern trade in, 256 

 number of species known, 3 

 oils, 153, 212 

 oil soap, 224 



parts of, employed' in arts and 



manufactures, 2 

 paste, 264 



products and their uses, 257, 

 264 



scales, uses of, 154 

 skins, uses of, 153 

 supply to London, 7 

 value of imports in the United 

 Kingdom, 21 

 Fish skin, applications of, 259 



leather, 259 

 Fisheries, French, 17 

 Irish, 12 



of North America, 13 

 value of exports of British, 



statistics of those of foreign 

 countries, 21 



