Oysters were an important food source in all coastal areas where they could be found, and oyster fisheries were an important industry where they were plentiful.

The biggest of the oyster middens was at White Patch, where dugong were also plentiful.

When the University of California excavated this site in 1902, and again in the 1920s, they found that the mound consisted mostly of clam, mussel, and oyster ( predominantly Olympia Oyster ) shells, with a plentiful mixture of cockleshells.

Maryland blue crabs, oysters, rockfish and more, although less plentiful today, have comprised the bountiful seasonal harvests of the Upper Chesapeake Bay.

It is a place of safety for the many halflings that live here ; their crops always give plentiful harvests and there are no large predators to speak of.

They agreed that the elder Pārśva should speak first, and he said: " The world should be made peaceable, with a long-lived king, plentiful harvests, and joy throughout the land, with none of the myriad calamities ", to which the ascetic had no response and so was bound to become Pārśva's disciple, and he was given full ordination as a bhikṣu.

" These festivals have always been a means of uniting communities through celebrations of harvests and giving thanks for a plentiful growing season.

Carthage, seeking to make up for the recent territorial losses and a plentiful source of silver to pay the large indemnity owed to Rome, turned its attention to Iberia, and in 237 BC the Carthaginians, led by Hamilcar Barca, began a series of campaigns to expand their control over the peninsula.

Electricity was plentiful after the building of the dam and led to Rupert being one of the first cities in the world to have its streets lighted by electricity.

This impressive longevity, combined with an immense territory ( stretching from Anatolia to Tunisia ), led naturally to a vital and distinctive art, including plentiful architecture, mass production of ceramics for both tiles and vessels, most notably Iznik ware, important metalwork and jewellery, Turkish paper marbling Ebru, Turkish carpets as well as tapestries and exceptional Ottoman miniatures and decorative Ottoman illumination.

Settlement at Chorleywood dates to the Paleolithic era, when the plentiful flint supply led to swift development of tools by early man.

A baluga chieftain named Caragan led his tribe in the rich balacat forests and settled themselves within its plentiful resources.

As a result of the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and recent population boom, new development was plentiful in the city.

Most of the development was in single-family houses, since land was plentiful.

Dianella was named after the botanical title of a small blue lily, Dianella revoluta, which is a narrow-leafed plant which was plentiful in the area prior to residential development.

* Bridgend was located in a national development area, having a plentiful supply of unemployed labour at the time

: a branch of the science of a statesman or legislator the twofold objectives of providing a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people ... to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue for the publick services.

The river is plentiful in ; black crappie, channel catfish, flathead catfish, largemouth bass, paddlefish, rainbow trout, brown trout, rock bass, smallmouth bass, walleye, white crappie, and some of the richest mussel beds in the state.

When jobs are plentiful on the market, in contrast, as in market-oriented developed countries, individuals depend on a strong state that enforces contracts equally.

The elk represents the plentiful game found in the state.

The noble families of the Bosnian state were keen to exploit the plentiful resources of gold and silver but they didn't have the skills to do so.

Sailfish are so plentiful that boat captains have been known to bet with a potential customer that if he does not catch anything the trip is free.

At that time, crabs were so plentiful that bars in Baltimore, Maryland, offered them free and seasonings like Old Bay were created to encourage patrons to purchase more beverages.

In the earlier sessions there was plentiful discussion on the natural law, which Dr. William V. O'Brien of Georgetown University, advanced as the basis for widely acceptable ethical judgments on foreign policy.

The momentous defeat was widely recorded in the British press, which praised the Australians for their plentiful " pluck " and berated the Englishmen for their lack thereof.

After the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which deprived France of almost all her possessions in the Americas other than Guiana and a few islands, Louis XV sent thousands of settlers to Guiana who were lured there with stories of plentiful gold and easy fortunes to be made.

When food is plentiful, many hydras reproduce asexually by producing buds in the body wall, which grow to be miniature adults and simply break away when they are mature.

Since air is plentiful at the surface of the earth, the oxidizer is typically atmospheric oxygen, which has the advantage of not being stored within the vehicle.

Neurotransmitters are synthesized from plentiful and simple precursors, such as amino acids, which are readily available from the diet and which require only a small number of biosynthetic steps to convert.

In this way, thorium, which is more plentiful than uranium, can be used to breed U-233 nuclear fuel.

Plant and machinery were plentiful and incompletely used, thus it was comparatively easy to substitute unused or partly used machinery for that which was destroyed.

The name of the month may be taken from Akkadian kislimu, which means " inspissated, thickened " due to plentiful rains.

A common cause for the fires in the Midwest can be found in the fact that the area had suffered through a tinder-dry summer, so that winds from the front that moved in that evening were capable of generating rapidly expanding blazes from available ignition sources, which were plentiful in the region.

* The basin of the Guadiana, which has principal tributaries: to the right: Guadarranque and Ruecas to the left: Zújar River which is its plentiful tributary and the Matachel.

The ZRs ( pronounced " Zed-Rs "), are privately-owned mini-vans, which are plentiful in Barbados and travel to most points on the island.

Because many areas have plentiful rainfall and mild summers, the Pacific Northwest has some of North America's most lush and extensive forests, which are extensively populated with coast Douglas-fir trees, the second tallest growing evergreen conifer on earth.

Caro is located in Indianfields Township, which was given its name for its plentiful Indian gardens.

Two camp grounds ( car / camper and walk-in tent camping only ) and plentiful picnic areas, some with shelters, water and composting toilets, are available at various points in the rainforest adjacent to the road, and one picnic spot at Blackbutts Lookout, offers spectacular scenic views to Mount Warning, and of the Tweed Valley, an erosion caldera which, while broken by the sea on its eastern flank, is considered larger in size than the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania.

The river is plentiful in trout and marron which can be caught in season.

In earlier times, the Ahtna Alaska Natives roamed the Copper River Valley in search of fish and game, both of which are usually plentiful there.

Fishing is popular on Lake Mohave and the Colorado River, which is plentiful with several species of fish, including Rainbow trout, Largemouth bass, Striped bass, crappie, sunfish, catfish ( channel ), and carp.

The property here attracted the attention of two Los Angeles capitalists, William G. Kerckoff and Jacob Mansar, who saw a chance to purchase a plentiful water supply from the newly constructed Enterprise Canal, which had its source in the Kings River.

The town was named Floral City for its abundance of wild flowers, which are still plentiful today.

A Palm Beach mining company moved into the area to take advantage of the plentiful rock, which was in great demand in Palm Beach County.

He gave time and money, the latter of which was not plentiful to anyone in the colony, to developing the town.