Size Of Oysters - Adrian Van Der Donck
1650 • New York Harbor
“According to van der Donck, the pears were larger than a fist, the wild turkeys weighed forty pounds, the lobsters were six feet long, and the oysters measured twelve inches.”
Kurlansky, Mark. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell. New York: Ballantine, 2006. 23.
The New Student’s Reference Work, Edited by Chandler Beach, 1914.
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