… London News of 1865, as of large size and of tortoise-shell, and having on the lid in high relief, chased in … unusual sound proceeding from one of the tubs in which the shell-fish lay piled in layers one over the other, placidly … or, at any rate, producing a sort of 'sifflement' with its shell. It was not diffcult to detect this phenomenal bivalve, …
