INDEX. 
193 
Ear-shell, Haliotis tuberculata, 
113. 
Ear-shells used in Guernsey by 
fanners to frighten birds from 
the corn, 114 
Ear of Venus, 114. 
Eastbourne oyster beds, 73. 
Echinidae eaten by the ancients, 
179. 
Echini, to cook, 180. 
Echini best in autumn, 180. 
Echini eaten raw like oysters, 180. 
Echini move by means of their 
spines, 176. 
Echinus in holes of rocks, granite, 
sandstone, and limestone, 177. 
Echinus esculentus, 179. 
Echinus esculentus the real oursin 
comestible, 178. 
Echinus granulosus, 179. 
Echinus in heraldry, 177. 
Echinus lividus, or purple egg 
urchin, eaten on the west coast 
of Ireland, 177. 
Echinus lividus eaten at Naples, 
179. 
Echinus melo, 179. 
Echinus sphsera, 176. 
Echinus sphaera, shells of, 177. 
Eledone cirrhosus, 166. 
Eler.chi, long pearl-shaped pearls 
called, 56. 
Enemies of the oyster, 70. 
Enthronization feast of William 
Warham, 133. 
Escallop in heraldry borne not 
only as a pilgrim’s badge, 105. 
Escallop shell, crest of Bower and 
of Bullingham, 104. 
Escargotieres, or snail gardens, 12. 
Escargots, 14. 
Escourgol, 14. 
Esnandes, 45. 
Experiments by M. Cuzent on 
green oysters, 79. 
Export of snails from Saintonge 
and Aunis to Senegal and the 
Antilles, 15. 
Extracting copper from oysters, 51. 
Extravagance in jewellery from the 
12th to 16th centuries, 57. 
Eyilkier, 180. 
Falmouth oysters sent to Maren- 
nes, 79. 
Famine of 1816 and 1817, 15. 
Fish and oyster culture company, 
75. 
Fishing for mussels in Bay of Con- 
cepcion, 50. 
Flia, 119. 
Flitters, 119. 
Folado, 161. 
Foreign pearls, 54. 
Fortunes predicted by snails, 21. 
Fountain of shells. 111. 
French mussel breeders, 47. 
French names for limpets, 121. 
French names for scallops, 101. 
Fried oysters another way, 89. 
Frills or queens, 99. 
Fuegian women dive for sea-eggs, 
178. 
Fusus antiquus, red or almond 
whelk, 132. 
Fitsus antiquus used as food, 132. 
Fusus antiquus, shells of, used as 
lamps, 133. 
Fusus antiquus sold in London 
under the name of whelk, 124. 
Fusus antiquus, white variety, 133. 
Gambling by means of snail races, 
21 . 
Gaper, or Mya, 153. 
Garden snail. Helix aspei’sa, 1. 
Garden walks made of cockle 
shells, 28. 
Gathering cry of pilgrims, 108. 
Glamorganshire way of pickling 
oysters, 94. 
Glow-worm, lines on a, 161. 
Gofiehe, or scallop, 101. 
Goggle, or whelk, 29. 
Gongola, or Mactra, 152, 
Googawns and cuckoo-shells, 124. 
Gower, a Flemish colony, 28. 
Gower people live on cockles, 28. 
Gower method of cooking cockles, 
36. 
Gower recipe for oyster soup, 85. 
Grand’ -pelerine, 101. 
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