Show TRANSLUCENT CLAMS Capt John T. T Barclay who piloted the steamer Ameri America a from the capes brought with ith him a a. box of starfish and what that 1 lias IS the appearance of a clam out of the sheh shell The latter is 15 almost trAnslucent trAns trAns- trans trans- Ii lucent lucent Capt apt Barclay reports t that lat at during duning dun dur durling ing the late gales galea that have V s swept pt th the coast the beach at Cape Henry has his been cov covered r d with this peculiar shellfish shellfish shellfish shell shell- fish C tar fish and live crabs At least COO OO barrels of crabs were red wei gathered he says and fo forwarded warded to the Northern markets Such Sucha a a a harvest of cr crabs bs starfish and and tl the e cl like clam m fish was was- never known on the be beach ch either summer sum sum- mar mer or winter Capt Barclay too took the specimens to the Johns Hopkins university to ascertain ascertain ascer ascer- tam tain the name of the peculiar pecullar shellfish and why there has has' been been been-a a a. plethora plethora- of ot clams in In the vicinity crabs starfish and clams clams- of the Chesapeake at the mouth ty o of this sea season season-of on of the year The The shellfish he said were eaten by men men on on th the beach who pronounced pronoun ed them superior to the cl clam n for Baltimore soup Baltimore Sun |