Lectures on the science of language: First and second series . ashire tree Geese;but the other that do fall upon the land, perish andcome to nothing: thus much by the writings ofothers, and also from the mouths of people of thoseparts, which may very well accord with truth. But what our eies have scene, and hands havetouched, we shall declare. There is a small Ilandein Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, whereinare found the broken peeces of old and brused ships,some whereof have beene cast thither by shipwracke,and also the trunks or bodies with the branches ofold and rotten trees, cast u
Lectures on the science of language: First and second series . ashire tree Geese;but the other that do fall upon the land, perish andcome to nothing: thus much by the writings ofothers, and also from the mouths of people of thoseparts, which may very well accord with truth. But what our eies have scene, and hands havetouched, we shall declare. There is a small Ilandein Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, whereinare found the broken peeces of old and brused ships,some whereof have beene cast thither by shipwracke,and also the trunks or bodies with the branches ofold and rotten trees, cast up there likewise : whereonis found a certaine spume or froth, that in timebreedeth unto certaine shels, in shape like those ofthe muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitishcolour ; wherein is conteined a thing in forme like alace of silke finely woven, as it were togither, of awhitish colour; one ende whereof is fastened unto p BARNACLES. 559 the inside of the shell, even as the fish of Oisters andMuskles are; the other ende is made fast unto the Fig. COFIED FKOM GEBASDES UEKBALL. 560 BARNACLES. belly of a rude masse or lumpe, which in time commeth to the shape and forme of a Bird: when it isperfectly formed, the shel gapeth open, and the firstthing that appeereth is the foresaid lace or string;next come the legs of the Birde hanging out; and asit groweth greater, it openetb the shell by degrees,till at length it is all come foorth, and hangeth onlyby the bill; in short space after it commeth to fullmaturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gatherethfeathers, and groweth to a foule, bigger then aMallard, and lesser then a Goose; having blackelegs and bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white,spotted in such manner as is our Magge-Pie, calledin some places a Pie-Annet, which the people ofLancashire call by no other name then a tree Goose;which place aforesaide, and all those parts adjoining,do so much abound therewith, that one of the bestis bought for three pence
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