Show oyster shell window panes on the west coast of I 1 india Is found a species of oyster llacuna placenta whoso choso shell shelf consists of a pair of roughly circular plates about six inches in diameter ella meter thin and white at present these oysters are arc collected for the pearls which they aften often contain alt although bough few are tit it for tile tho use of tho the jeweler but in the early days of english engllish rule in india the sh shells ells were employed for windowpanes window panes prines cut into little squares they produced a very pretty effect admitting light like frosted frocked glass when the bombay cathedral was built at the beginning of tho the eighteenth century its windows were partied with these oyster shells in goa they aro are still thus employed |