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Updated: June 12, 2025
They are the homes of the guardians of the oyster beds, who keep watch and ward through the long winter. Even more disastrous than possible visits from a male poacher are the incursions of a large flat sea-fish, known at Arcachon as the thére, with us the ray. This gentleman has a colossal appetite for oysters.
A large assembly had met, and everything was ready for Jasmin. But there was no Jasmin! The omnibus from Bayonne did not bring him. It turned out, that at the moment of setting out he was seized with a sudden loss of voice. As in the case of Arcachon, the cure had to do without him. The result of his address was a collection of 700 francs. The Abbe Masson was a liberal-minded man.
Oyster fisheries used to abound the celebrated beds at Arcachon in the Landes were stocked from Ireland but they have fallen into disuse, and with their disappearance a very remunerative business has been lost. The need for extensive and scientific forestry one may also note is obvious, from the fact that there are seven million acres of former woodland which are now reduced to a waste.
Passing through the forest by the railway line from La Mothe to Arcachon, one sees every tree marked with a deep cut. It looks as if the woodman had been about, picking out trees ready for the axe, and had come to the conclusion that they might be cut down en bloc. But these marks are indications of the process of milking the forests.
The public hospitals and the benevolent societies frequently shared in the receipts. There seemed to be no limits to the poet's zeal in labouring for those who were in want of funds. Independent of his recitations for the benefit of the church at Vergt, he often turned aside to one place or another where the poor were in the greatest need of assistance. On one occasion he went to Arcachon.
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