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ANCIENT NATIVES OF BRITAIN, ENCAMPED NEAR COLCHESTER.

(From a curious Glyptic in possession of the Author.)
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THE OYSTER;
 
WHERE, HOW, AND WHEN
TO
FIND, BREED, COOK,
AND
EAT IT.
LONDON:
TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.
MDCCCLXI.
iiiLONDON:
WILLIAM STEVENS, PRINTER, 37, BELL YARD,
TEMPLE BAR.
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
 
THE OYSTER IN SEASON.
 
The R. canon correct; Alimentary Qualities of the Oyster; Profitable Investment; Billingsgate, and London Consumption; English Oyster-beds; Jersey Oysters; French Oyster-beds on the Coast of Brittany9
 
CHAPTER II.
 
ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE OYSTER.
 
The Ancients; Oysters a Greek and Roman Luxury; Sergius Orata, and the Oyster-beds of Baia; Immense Consumption at Rome; Failure of the Circean and Lucrinian Oyster-beds under Domitian, and Introduction of Rutupians from Britain; Agricola, Constantine, and Helena; Athenian Oysters, and Aristides.21
 
CHAPTER III.
 
MODERN HISTORY OF THE OYSTER.
 
Fall of the Rutupian Supremacy; Louis IV. and William of Normandy; Conquest of England, and Revival of Oyster-eating in England; The Oyster under Legal Protection; American Oysters24
 
vCHAPTER IV.
 
THE OYSTER AT HOME.
 
Its Nature, Colour, and Structure; Natural Food; Perception of the changes of Light; Uses of the Celia; Fecundity and Means of Propagation; Age; Fossil Oysters in Berkshire and in the Pacific; Power of Locomotion28
 
CHAPTER V.
 
THE OYSTER IN ITS NEW SETTLEMENT.
 
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