Adriatic, and the Mountains of Carniola , Carinthia , SfC* SIB 
than common oysters, and equally good in flavour. The fish- 
women soon shewed us how to prepare these fish, as they sup- 
posed that we bought them, not on account of the shells, but 
for the sake of their inhabitants : they held them over a fire, 
whereupon the animal protrudes itself, and is pulled out and 
eaten. As they come fresh from the sea, they are sufficiently 
salted, and have a good deal of the true oyster flavour. On in- 
quiring for collections of shells, we found that some women had, 
at their houses, whole basket-fulls laid by ; but these were 
mostly all of one species, and partly damaged by exposure to 
the weather on the beach, and broken. Besides, the owners 
would not allow us to pick from among them, and we did not 
know what to do with the whole quantity ; so we preferred buy- 
ing the shells alive, and the more so, because we thus got a 
meal gratis. In this manner we purchased a quantity for our 
own collection, and those of our friends ; containing, amongst 
others, Ostraa Jacobcea , Turbo rugosus , Solen Vagina , Car- 
dium rusticum , Venus Castrensis , Galina and ventricosa , Area 
Glycimeris , Trochus magnus , Murex cornutus (of which, and 
of Cardium rusticum, we purchased a handkerchief full for our 
own eating), Venus reticulata , and Ostroea squamata and edulis. 
From the market, M. Hohl was obliging enough to offer to con- 
duct us to a part of the sea-shore which abounded in shells ; so, 
having put our cockles into a place of security, we accompanied 
him to the spot, in the quarter of St Andre, where we found, 
indeed, a vast variety. The stones which rose above low-water 
mark, were all covered with the young of Mytilus edulis , firmly 
adhering to each other, and here called Lazarus’ Lice ( Laza - 
rethlause)> We picked up pieces of Madrepores, besides Mu- 
rex cornutus and Aluce , Echinus ciliaris , and many that are 
sold in the market, such as Buccinum reticulatum , Bulimns ra- 
diatus of Draparnauld, Cardium rusticum (but in an injured 
state) ; Area Noa, Donax truncidus , and various Tellinas and 
Ostraeas which are unknown to us. Here it may not be im- 
proper to observe, that those shells, which have been long expo- 
sed to the vicissitudes of the weather on the beach, are spoiled ; 
and that those which are enveloped in a scurfy covering, must be 
rubbed with aquafortis, before they are made to look well in a 
cabinet. At the ebb-tide, numbers of women and children 
