Raccoon Oysters

The banka of tlie rivers, ereeks and oimds which Ibnn the insidc route beween Charleston and Savaunah, aud i) otlier Soutliern localilies, are liued viih larg rides of snmll, bitter oysections as "raccoon oysters." ïhey accumulate with wonderful i-apidity and nut iintrequently Ibnn reets iii the clianncls whereon the sniall atearnppa plying in those waters get aground. At low tidc the tops of those ridges are out of water, and tlio oysters have taken their name l'roni the tact that raecuons at sucli times coiné down frora the woods to cat tliom. Tliey in; x wily bivalvo, and much bettor than a steel-trap for capturing raccoons. In rowiug lrom Wappoo Out, James land, opposite Charleston, to Edisto Island, a distance oí'about lifty milos, 1 liave seen as niany as four 'coons up011 whose ciaws the oysters had forecloscd, to hüld flrmly uuiil the