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to work, if in the morning on leaving their houses a pig 
should cross their path. 
In the ^ Sporting Gazette/ December 24th, 1864, an 
account is given of the discovery of a new oyster-bed in 
Glenluce Bay, Mull of Galloway. The oysters are large, 
and the fishermen think they are lying several feet deep. 
An experimental steam-fishing vessel has been built at 
Cockenzie* she is a dandy cutter-rigged craft, forty 
tons burden, assisted with auxiliary screw steam power, 
for the purpose of dredging oysters during the winter 
months, and deep-sea trawling during summer. 
The celebrated Pandore^^ oysters are principally ob- 
tained from Prestonpans. They are so called from being 
found in the neighbourhood of the salt-pans, and are 
large and well- flavoured. 
Among the Antient Cryes of London’^ we find the 
following : — 
‘‘We daily cryes about the streets may hear, 
According to the season of the year ; 
Some Weljieet oysters call^ others do cry 
Fine Shelsea cockles, or white mussels buy.”* 
Oysters are also imported from the coast of Nor- 
mandy and from Ostend ; and Dr. Knapp tells us that 
not less than 800,000 tubs, each tub containing two 
English bushels, are procured annually from the Norman 
coast for the English market and the Channel Islands. 
Dieppe has large oyster-beds, and the celebrated Rocher 
de Cancale oysters are well known. There are fisheries 
at Granville, and the number of oysters taken in 1862 
and 1863 was about 4,500,000 ; in 1861 and 1862 the 
Granville boats took 13,396,677 oysters, which, being 
sold at 18 francs the thousand, produced 241,140 francs, 
* Kirby’s ‘Wonderful Museum,’ vol. ii. p. 233. 
