. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . over andRomney, in fome of which he found lining things withoutforme or fhape; in others which were neerer come to ripenes,liuing things that were very naked, in fhape like a birde : iaothers, the birds couered with foft downe, the fhell halfe open,and the birde readie to fall out, which no doubt v/ere the foulescalled Barnakles.* 3IO BRITISH BIRDS. rate thefe authors, or to quote the entertaining partsof the wild whimfies with which they have embel-lifhed their deferiptions of thefe birds, would far ex-ceed the limits of this work, a
. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . over andRomney, in fome of which he found lining things withoutforme or fhape; in others which were neerer come to ripenes,liuing things that were very naked, in fhape like a birde : iaothers, the birds couered with foft downe, the fhell halfe open,and the birde readie to fall out, which no doubt v/ere the foulescalled Barnakles.* 3IO BRITISH BIRDS. rate thefe authors, or to quote the entertaining partsof the wild whimfies with which they have embel-lifhed their deferiptions of thefe birds, would far ex-ceed the limits of this work, and would only ferveto prove (were that neceffary) how credulous, notonly the great unthinking mafs, but even the phi-lofophers once were, and how far it was poffible forfuch circumftantially told miracles to lay the under-ftandings of mankind faft afleep. Bartholin difco-vered that thefe Goofe-bearing conches containedonly a fhell-fifh of a particular kind, a fpecies ofmultivalve—the Poujfe-pieds of Wormius and Lobel,and the Lepas Anatifera of BRITISH BIRDS. 311
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