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Show Aadi oa 3. eT a The Defiription, Auing travelled fronythe Gra fles Stow ing in the bottomeofthe fennywate H and mountaines, éueri vnto rs, the Woods Libanus it felfe 3 and alfo thefea, and bowels of the me wee arearriued at the end ofour Hifto rié ; thinking it nor impertinent to'the conclufion of the fame,to end with one ofthe maruells ofthis lind (we mayfay of the world.) The hiftoriewhete. of to fet forth accordirigto'the worthineff e and raritie thereof, would not only peculiar volume,but alfo a deeper requirea laroe and fearch into'the bowels ofnature, than my intended fuffer me towade into, myfuffici purpotewl encie voto fome excellent men; learnedin alfconfidered 3 leauing the biftorie thereofrough hewen the fecrets of nature,to be both fined andrefined :in the Mean fpace take it asit falleth out, the naked and bare truth, though vnpol Northparts of Scotland and the ifhed. There are found in the Iflands adiatent,called Orchades, certaintrees whereondo ptoy éertaine fhells of a white colou r tending to ruffer, wherein are contained little liuing Cleatu whichfhells intime ofmaturitiedo res + Open, and out of them grow thafe falling into the water do become little lining things, which fowles,which wecall Barnakles ; in the Northof. Englandbrane Geefe ; and'in Laneafhire, tree Geefe: nothing. Thus much bythe writings but the other that do fall vponthe land perith and come to ofothers,andalfo from the mouths ofpeople ofthofe parts, which ‘mayvery well accord with truth . But what our eyes haue feene, and hands haué touched we thall decla in Lanea (hire calied the Pile of re. There is a {mall Ifland Fouldets, wherein are foun fhips, fome whereof hane been caft thither d the broken pieces ofold and bruifed bythipwracke, andalfo the trunks and branches ofold androtten trees, bodies with the caft vp there likewife, whercon is found a certaine {pume orfroth that in time breedethviito certaine thels , in fhape like thofe of the Muskle, ained a thing in forme like a lace of but tharper pointed, itwere together. ofa whitith colo filke finely wouten as ur,o the fith of Oifters and Muskles are': théne end whereofis afthed vnto the infide of the thell,euen as other endi s made faft ynto the belly of a rude maffe or jumpe, which in time commethto the thape and forme of a Bird: whenit is perfe thell gapeth open, and the frit thing that atly forme appea rethi s the foréfaid lace orftring ; next, comed the legs of the bird hanging outand as the it groweth greater it and ofa whitith colour whereinis Cont Lin. OftheHliforyofPanis, ae a rf ; ome.Hollanders wore ? ‘ 1¢,Hollanders to haue anotheroriginall, igi by ginall, | and that by egges, i gses, as | ae voyage to finde out the North-Eaft paflage to China,and er eae Bit aue : ;forsme they in the yas / ‘ Pree ~ : other pies a | h ‘ict viedk degree and eleuen minutes of Not therly latitude, found ad the Molucco’s, theof Pohick ittle Iflands, inos of thefe Geefe the one whic they found aboundanceBat fitting vpon tists egges, : int SOR . i a they got one Goofe, and tooke away fixty egges, &e. Vide FOEa : - oe ee ofwhich my S Now the thells out of whichthefe birds were thought tofly, m2. Fift libs2.cap.22. si : Sepia ie stineesiade alnas oe ae in 7 Columna, inthe end ofhis Phytobafanos, writing Pf Z “e of Balanus marinus , a nd thus: Fabivs shofe opinion I wholly fubfcribe,and to it I refer the -urious. Liars Li: SoA Heeae + ie Sanne Bhe er natiferas, oe non effe fructus terreflres,nequeex orivi: sfed b , fis Anates is a ae affeueration this mainate on faid fomthing more hereof,but thus muchI thinke may ferue; Le quel Dron donee Salant marine [peciem. Bares cele se at which Fabius Colymaghath written vponthis point. + ee dg in isis bred the Barnakle, até ; | -n plankes wHereonare found thefe thels wherein bred the : ie ei Theberders atid ee ire, half halfe a mile from the maine land, called the ken vp ina {mall*Ifland adioyning to Lancafhire, staken vf Q d Pile of Foulders: «pile Time, er in i March -d Aprill; Aprill ; the Geefe Theyfpawne asit were c are formed in Mayand Iune,and come ee thafter. i fulneffe : ! : ‘ € © of difcourfed I L ee i ee ss ootd hoa fomewhat at large of Graffes, Herbes, And thus ae hauing through ee ih 1 certaine Excrefcences of the earth, ther things ee withite -es,and Moffes, and certaine Excre eee t teses ident to the hiftorie thereof, we conclude and end out prefe ee Eng BENEela i this is wonder wonder o England. For thewhich Volume, with Gods name beeuer honored and praifed. openeth the hell by degtees,tilat leng itis all come forth; and hangeth onel e yby the bill : in hore {pace after it comm ethtofall maturitie, and falléth into-the {ea, where itga thereth feathers,and srowethto’a fowle bigger thana Mallard, and leffer thana Goofe, hauing blacke legs and bill or beake, andfeathe rs blacke and white, i er as is our Mag-Pie,called-in fome place s-a Pie-Annet,which the peopleot Lancathire call by no other namethan a tree Goofe : whichplaceaforefaid,andall thofe parts adioyning do fo much abound therewith, thar One.ofthebefis boughtfor three hereof, ifany doubt, mayit pleafé them pence . to repaire vnto me,and I fhall fatisfe rhemFor the truth bytheteftimonie ofgaod witneffes, .\ >. : ; Moreouer,it fhould feemethat there isano therfort hereof; thie hiftorie ofwhich i3 true,ita mine owne knowledge:'for trauelling ypon and the fhore of our Englith coat betweene Doue of r and Rumney,I found the trunkeofan old rotte n tree Which(with fomehelpe that I procu thermens w red by FiW. ing water vpon dry land : vponthis rottentree I foun isbands returne from the fea) we drewout of the d towing many thoufands oflong crim{on bladders, in fhape like vnto puddings‘newly filled, before they be fodden, whic h wereverycleere and fhining ; at thenetherend whereofd id grow but muchwhiter, refembling a thell fityt -a fhell fith,fathioned fomewhat like afmall Muskle, hat growethvponthe rockes about Garnfey called a Lympit: many ofthefe {hells broug and Garley, htwit foundin them Tiuing things.withotit forme or thape h me to London, whichafter I had opene dT ; in others which were necrer come to ripenes I found fining things thar were vety naked yin fhape like a Bird; in others, the Birds couered with foft downe, the thell halfe open, and the Bird ready to fall out, which no doub t were the Fowles called Barnakles. Tdavenor abfolutely auouch eucry circum ftance of thefirft part ofthis hiftor y, concerning the wreethat’beareth thofe buds afore faid, but will leaue it to a further confideration; howbeit that which Thave fence with mine eyes, and hand led with mine hands, I dare confidently auouch, and Boldlyput downefor verit ic. Now mightbe onéofthofebeforé mentioned,whicheicheif any will obie®, that this treewhich = r by thewauesofthe fea or fomeviolent bad been oucrturned, as manyother trees are ; or that any trees falling. into thofe feas about ! . Orchades, will Of themfeluesbeare the like fowles, by reafon ofthofe feas and waters,thefe beng fo probable coniedtures, andLi kely to be true, I may norw ithout preiudice gainefay,or indeauont toconfute. git : pfhe Barnakle, whofe fabu lous breed my Authorhere feys down : e, and diuer s others haue alfo —— = —~ oq ‘ a spc re ae |
