The Meat is the same for Look and Taste
as the Cockle. These make an excellent strong Broth, and eat well,
either roasted or pickled.
{Muscles.}
The Muscles in Carolina have a very large Shell, striped with Dents.
They grow by the side of Ponds and Creeks, in Salt-Water,
wherein you may get as many of them as you please. I do not like them so well
as the English Muscle, which is no good Shell-Fish.
{Conks.}
Some of the Shells of these are as large as a Man's Hand,
but the lesser sort are the best Meat, and those not extraordinary.
They are shap'd like the end of a Horses Yard. Of their Shells,
the Peak or Wampum is made, which is the richest Commodity
amongst the Indians. They breed like a long Thing shap'd like a Snake,
but containing a sort of Joints, in the Hollowness whereof
are thousands of small Coaks, no bigger then small Grains of Pepper.
{Skellops.}
The Skellops, if well dress'd, are a pretty Shell-Fish;
but to eat them only roasted, without any other Addition, in my Judgment,
are too luscious.
