. The sea [microform] : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan. BRITISH OYSTERS IN ROMAX DAYS. 133 exhausted the beds in that great fly-catcher's reign; and it was not till under the wise administration of Agricola in Britain, when the Romans got their far-famed Rutupians from the shores of Kent, from Richborough, and the Reculvers—the Rutupi Portus of the 'Itinerary,' of which the latter, the Regulbium, near Whitstable, in the mouth of the Thames, was the northern boundary that—Juven
. The sea [microform] : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan. BRITISH OYSTERS IN ROMAX DAYS. 133 exhausted the beds in that great fly-catcher's reign; and it was not till under the wise administration of Agricola in Britain, when the Romans got their far-famed Rutupians from the shores of Kent, from Richborough, and the Reculvers—the Rutupi Portus of the 'Itinerary,' of which the latter, the Regulbium, near Whitstable, in the mouth of the Thames, was the northern boundary that—Juvenal praised them as he does; and he was right; for in the whole world there are no oysters like them; and of all the 'breedy creatures' that glide, or have ever glided, down the throats of the human race, our ' natives' are probably the most ; The Roman emperors later on never failed to have British oysters at their banquets. Vitellius ate oysters four times daily, and at each meal is said to have got through 1,200 of his own natives! Seneca, who praised the charms of poverty, ate several hundred a week. Horace is enthusiastic about them; he notes the people who first provided him with them, and the name of the gourmet who at the first bite* was able to tell whence the particular breed came. ^"'Wt^f^K^^KM^^^^BSSB^M c "When I but see the oyster's shell, I look and recognise the river, marsh, or mud Where it was ; The shell is often an indication of the particular locality whence it is brought, and no doul>* ''i(> modern oyster dealer, if not the ordin; ly eater, cai. Jwiys tell rightly. For although London swears by her Milton antl Col- chester "natives," Edinburgh has her Pandoivs and Aberdours, and Dublin her Carlingfords and " P iwl- doodies of ; " There is one little spot," says the author of the entertaining but veracious little work quoted before, "on the shores of Cornwall which I ca
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