Part 10

Leads for fishing, 20, 21.

Leucosia urania, the, 63.

Liver of the crab, 5, 6.

Lobster-fishing, its great importance, 94, 95.

Lobster pigment, soluble in spirits of wine, 26.

Lobster season, 97.

Lobster-shell green, 27.

Lobsters, historical notices of, 90, et seq.; their powers of vision, 91; modes of capturing them, 92; their prolific nature, ib.; plans for artificial fecundation, and apparatus for, 93; numbers of brought to Billingsgate Market, 94, 95; large importation of, ib.; their popularity extends to all parts of the world, 96; strange use of them during the Indian war, ib.; shifting of their shells, when they become unfit for human food, 97; their care of offspring, 98; abundant on the coasts of British North America, ib.; captured by pic-nic parties, ib.; the spined lobster, 100; the crayfish variety, 100-102; swarms of, in the South American Seas, 102; fishing for, ib.; found on the coral reefs of the Mauritius, 105. (See Crayfish.)

Loop slip, use of the, 13.

Lucky stones, anecdote of the, 59.

Mackerel-fishing, 19.

Macrocheira-kœmpferi, the, 62.

Mauritius, the coral reefs of, the great resort of Crayfish, 105.

Mauve dresses, &c., tincture imparted to the, 27.

Medusidæ, family of the, 31.

Mithraculus coronatus, the, 63.

Mytilus edulis, 41.

Neptunus pelagicus, the, 63.

Nets for shrimping, 75.

Nets for shrimp-catching, 80.

Nut crab, the, 59; anecdote of the, ib.

Ocean, its broad expanse, a subject for profound meditation, 117.

Oceanus crucifer, 63.

Opossum of the shrimp family, 83, 84; fed on by the whale, 84.

Ou-Ou, the, 45; his habits, 48.

Oyster-knife, Roman, found near Cirencester, 3, note.

Pagurus, the, 44.

Parthenope horrida, 64.