Lectures on the science of language: First and second series . otia apud Jacobum regeni,hominem quadratuni et muKa pinguedine graveni, didicimus miraculasi^mper remotius fugere, famosamf|ne arborem non in Scotia, .«ed apudOrchades insulas inveniri. — Seb. IMuiister, Cusmoyrnphin, p. 19. 2 Trois Nirif/tUions fuites par hs IloUandak au Septenlrion. par Gerardde Vera. Paris, 1599, p. 112. BARNACLES. 567 tells us of an Irish priest, of the name of Octavianus,who assured him with an oath on the Gospel that hehad seen the birds in their rude state and handledthem. And Aldrovandus himself, after weig
Lectures on the science of language: First and second series . otia apud Jacobum regeni,hominem quadratuni et muKa pinguedine graveni, didicimus miraculasi^mper remotius fugere, famosamf|ne arborem non in Scotia, .«ed apudOrchades insulas inveniri. — Seb. IMuiister, Cusmoyrnphin, p. 19. 2 Trois Nirif/tUions fuites par hs IloUandak au Septenlrion. par Gerardde Vera. Paris, 1599, p. 112. BARNACLES. 567 tells us of an Irish priest, of the name of Octavianus,who assured him with an oath on the Gospel that hehad seen the birds in their rude state and handledthem. And Aldrovandus himself, after weighing allthe evidence for and against the miraculous originof the Barnacle-goose, arrives at the conclusion thatit is beti;er to err with the majority than to argueagainst so many eminent writers.^ In 1629 a CountMaier published at Frankfort a book, De VolucriArborea (On the Tree-bird), in which he explainsthe whole process of its birth, and indulges in somemost absurd and blasphemous speculations.^ But how did this extraordinary story arise ? Why Fig. should anybody ever have conceived the idea that abird was produced from a shell; and this particular Malim tamen cum pluribus errare quam tot scriptoribus clarissimiaoblatrare quibus prater id quod de ephemero dictum est, favet etiam quodest ab Aristotele proditum, genus scilicet testatum quoddam navigiis pu-trescente fsece spumosa adnasci. (P. 173, line 47). 2 The fourth chapter has the following heading: Quod finis propriuahujus volucris generatioiiis sit ut referat duplici sua natura, vegetabili etanimali, Christum Deum et hominem, qui quoque sine patre et matre, ulille. existit 568 BARNACLES. bird, the Barnacle-goose, from this particular shell,the Barnacle-shell ? K the story was once started,there are many things that would keep it alive ; andits vitality has certainly been extraordinary. Thereare certain features about this Barnacle-shell whichto a careless observer might look like the first rudi-ments of a bird ;
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