 | John Gwyn Jeffreys - Mollusks - 1862 - 498 pages
...Apple-snail. Dr. Gray says that the glassmen at Newcastle once a year have a snail-feast, and that they generally collect the snails themselves in the fields and hedges the Sunday before the feast-day. They are supposed to have the power of excavating holes in limestone rocks to form their... | |
 | Ralph Tate - Mollusks - 1866 - 336 pages
...virtues. Dr. Gray writes, that " the glassmen of Newcastle once a year have a snail-feast, and that they generally collect the snails themselves in the fields and hedges the Sunday before the feast." The working population of Lancashire have a reputation for the like custom. In the South of France... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1870 - 660 pages
...AppleSnail. Dr. Gray says that the glassmen at Newcastle, once a-year, have a snail-feast, and that they generally collect the snails themselves in the fields and hedges the Sunday before feast-day." Nor are the author's considerations on the subject confined either to the scientific or... | |
 | Science - 1870 - 682 pages
...AppleSnail. Dr. Gray says that the glassmen at Newcastle, once a-year, have a snail-feast, and that they generally collect the snails themselves in the fields and hedges the Sunday before feast-day." Nor are the author's considerations on the subject confined either to the scientific or... | |
 | Science - 1870 - 644 pages
...AppleSnail. Dr. Gray says that the glassmen at Newcastle, once a-year, have a snail-feast, and that they generally collect the snails themselves in the fields and hedges the Sunday before feast-day." Nor are the author's considerations on the subject confined either to the scientific or... | |
 | Richard Rimmer - Libraries--Special collections--Rare books - 1880 - 308 pages
...boiled in milk, an excellent remedy for diseases of the chest. In Turton's 'Manual' it is stated that "the glassmen at Newcastle once a year have a snail...fields and hedges the Sunday before the feast day." I am informed that this practice is still continued, and although it might probably be difficult to... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 894 pages
...equally good, though not so large, and ' the glassmen at Newcastle once a year have a snail-feast; they generally collect the snails themselves in the...fields and hedges the Sunday before the feast day.' — Turton's British Land and Fresh-water Shells, Snails of different species are also an article of... | |
 | William Thomas Fernie - Animal extracts - 1899 - 600 pages
...packed in old cases and sent to the United States of America as delicacies. The glass-men at Newastle once a year have a snail feast. They generally collect the snails themselves in the fields and hedges on the Sunday before this anniversary. Petronius Arbiter twice describes among the old Romans a serving... | |
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... mischief: a kind of broth is made from them, and used as a remedy for pulmonary complaints. This kind of snail is occasionally eaten by the French; but it is not held by them in the same estimation as the AppleSnail. Dr. Gray says that the glassmen... 