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. 
Weolc-basn-hewen, 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. 
Whelks 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- 
fishers, 124. 
White bones or pearls, 55. 
White oysters from Spain, Bre- 
tagne, etc., sent to Marennes,79. 
White oyster sauce, 86. 
White snails from Rieti, 10. 
Whitstable oyster beds, 72. 
Whitstable a fishing town of note 
in the reign of Henry YIII., 
71. 
Whistles made of the shells of 
- Helix pomatia, 21. 
Wigwam Cove, piles of old shells 
at, 32. 
Winter soup of snails, 24. 
Witch goes to sea in a 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. 
Youglial way of cooking sugar- 
loons, 156. 
Zostera marina, 179. 
Zots-kappen, 43. 
THE END. 
PEINIED BY J. E. TATLOE AXD CO., LITTLE QUEEX STEEET, HOLBOEX, 
