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MONOMYARIA.—OSTREADÆ.
ANIMAL OF THE OYSTER.
but it has been said that the best are found at Purfleet, and the worst at Liverpool. The Tenby oyster is large and rather coarse; but when fat is well-flavoured, and excellent when well stewed or pickled. Colchester, and other places in Essex, are the great nurseries or feeding-grounds for supplying the metropolis, and indeed, in a great measure, England generally, with this highly flavoured species. Here the Oysters collected at various places on the coast, even as far as Scotland, are brought, and laid on beds in creeks along
