Show boyter shell window panes on tho west coast of india la Is found a species of oyster llacuna ta whose shell consists of a pair of roughly circular plates about six iab inched d in diameter thin and white at present these oysters aro ar 9 collected for the pearls pearla which they often con tain although low few are fit for the use of the jeweler hut but in the early days of english rule in M the shells were employed for window panes cut into little squares they produced a very tory pretty effect admitting libbl uke mr frosted glass when the bombay v cr thedral m as built at the beginning 0 01 the eighteenth century its windows were paned with these oyster shells to in goa they are still thus employed |