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Part 13

Crab, Shrimp, and Lobster Lore · William Barry Lord — chapter 13 of 13 · ~110 words · public domain

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Walpole’s account of fishing for crayfish, 102.

Whelk-shells, 34.

Whiting, capture of, 18.

Yoke-lines used in shrimping, 75.

R. CLAY, SON, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, DREAD STREET HILL.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

Obvious typos and missing characters corrected. However, the following have been left unchanged from the original: author’s spelling of “hybernation”, “Macrocheira-kœmpferi”; extra closing bracket on page 57.

The text on page 74, which describes the illustration “The Dredge”, has incorrectly referred to part A on the illustration with a lowercase “a”.

Inconsistencies in hyphenation retained.

Missing punctuation in index corrected.

The positions of some illustrations were moved to enhance readability. Page numbers from the original list of illustrations have been retained.

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