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Show THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE Thewhite Saunders mixed with Rofe water,and the temples bathed therewith, ceafeththe pain ofthe megrim, and keepeth backethe flowing of humorsto the eies. Awicen affirmethit to be good forall paffions of the hart , and makethit gladand merrie, and therefore good to be put in collifes, iellies , andall delicate meates which needeto haue their colour made morepleafantto the fight. HISTORIE OF PLANTS, Ofthe Goofe tree, Barnakletree, or the tree bearing Geefe. (bap.167. s Britannica Conchaanatifere. The breede ofBarnakles. Of the Stonie wood,or woode made Stones. Chap.166. _ & Thedefeription. Auing trauelled from the Graffes growing in the bottomeofthe fennywaters . the woods , and mountaines, een vnto Libanusit felfe;and alfothe fea, and bowels of the fame:weare arriued to the end ofour Hiftoric, thinking it not impertinent to the conclufi- % The defcription. Mong the woonders of Englandthisis one of great admiration , andcontrarie vnto mans reafon and capacitie , that on ofthe fame , to end with one ofthe maruels there fhoulde be akind of woode altcrableinto the hardnes ofaftone called Stonie woode,or rather akinde ofwater, which hardneth woode ofthis land (we mayfayofthe world.) The Hi{torie whereof to fet foorth according to the woorthines and raritie thereof, woulde not onely require a large andpeculiar volume , but andother things, into thenature andmatter of ftones. But we knowthat the works of Godate woonderfull, ifwe do but narrowlyfearch the leaft ofthem , which we dailybeholde; much more if weturneour €ies yponthofe that ate feldome feene, and knownebut ofa fewe, and thatof fiichas haue painfullytrae fecrets ofnature. This ftrangealterationo ture is to be {eene in findry parts of England and Wales, throughthe qualisies of ome waters and earth, whichchangefuchthings into alfo a deeper fearch into the bowels of nature, then myintendedpurpofewil fuffer me to wade into , my infufficiencie alfo confidered ; leaving the hiftorie thereof rough hewen, vnto fome excelJent men, Jeatned in the fecrets of nature, tobeboth finedand refined: in the meane ff takeitas it falleth out,thenaked and bare truth, though vnpolifhed, There are founde northparts ofScotland, & the Ilands called Orchades, certaine trees, whereon ¢ |10€ growe certaine fhell fifhes, of a white colour tending torufler; whe re conteined little Jining creatures: which fhels in time of n ituritie doe open , and out of them grow thofelittle lining things; which falling ir to the water, doe become foules, whom we call Barnakl north of England Brant Geefe , anc fhire tree Geefe ; but the other on theland, perifh and comet ftones as dofall therein or which are of put- pofe (fortriall) put into them. In the part ofEnglande, there isa Well n¢ Knaesborough, which will change z into{tone, whether it be wood, timl of trees, moffe, leather'gloues or There be diuers places in Bedfordih wickfhire and Wales, where there! that qualitie, that if a ftake be driv that part of the ftake which is within much bythe writings of ot! groundwillbea firmeand hard ftone, &a the mouths ofpeople of tho! tr very wellaccord with whichis aboue the earthretaineth his fc fubftance andnature. Alfo myfelfe b Butwhatour eies haue feene,and hands hauctouched,we (hall de ALancafhire called the Pileof Foulders, wherein are found the Rougby (about firch time as our fantafticke people did with great concourle and multitud paire and run headlong vnto the facred Wels of Mewnam regis, in the edge of V\ Ve vntothe water oflife, which could cureall difeafes ) went from thence vntothefe ‘tips, fome whereofhaue bene caft thither by fhipwracke,and alfo likewife: wheron'!s f anches of old androttentrees ,caft vp there tintime breedeth ynib certaine fhels, infhapelike thofe of the like alace o} ofa whitith colour; wherein is conteineda thing in forme fr {2 is whereof ende one colour; whitith a of uit were togither, Seas the fith of Oifters and Muskles are; the othec ende ism founde growing onerthe famea faire Ath tree, whofe boughes didhang ouer the fprin whereof fome that were feareand rotten , and fome that of purpofe were broke water,& wereall turned into ftones.Of thefe boughes or parts of thetree,lb which when [had broken in peeces, therein might be feene that the pith anda into ftones syea manybuds and flowrings of the tree falling into the fai le water, they into hard ftones, ftill retaining the fame thape & fathionthat they wereof before « water, I doubt not but if this water were proouedabout the hardning of fome kinde Phificall, for the preferuationof them,or other{peciall ends,it wouldoffer greater occa" hings as already mitationfor the health and benefite of mankinde, thenit doth aboutfucht beene experimented,tending to very little purpofe. & form forlumpe, which in time commeth to the fhape reth isthe ap rag thel gapeth open, & the firft thing that IK open ka tie Birde hanging out; andas it groweth ‘ $s Se et as ee Lignalapidea, fine in Lapides conuer/a. The Stonie woode, or woodemade ftones. greater, SMitis all come foorth,and hangeth onelyby the Mand fallethinto the fea,where it gathereth feather ard, and leffer then a Goofe ; hauing blacke legs an: fos Mhite, (potted in {uch maneras is our Magge-Pie, called in dines eee ee 1390 B |