The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
Befides it has feveral round fimall Protuberancies over its Surface, fuppofed to 
be the Seed. | | 
Tt grows on the Rocks, covered with the Sea,.on all the Coafis of this 
Ifland. 
XXI. Lenticula marina ferratis foliis. Cat. p. 4. Lob. olf. p.653. Sargaffa de 
Bry Ind. or. part. 5. p. 40. Zargalfe Mnf. Swammerd. p. 23. Acinara, agrefio 
marino, terza [pecie. Imper. p.645- 
This is ufually abour a Foot long, having rough, fmall, dark brown, or 
blackifh Stalks, on which come feveral Inch and half, or cwo. Inches long 
Leaves, being not over the eighth part of an Inch broad ia the middle where 
broadeft, ferrated about the edges, being of a dark brown Colour like other 
the fuoi, it has many round air Blacders, coming out from the Stalk on 
{mall Footftalks, like in magnitude, fhape, gc. to Lentils, which give it che 
name. 
It grew on the Rocks about this Iffland, whence it is thrown upon the 
Shore, and carried with the Currents through the Gulf of Florida, all 
along the Coaft of North-America, in great abundance, where J gathered ir, 
and with it took up feveral fmall Crabs which were alive, aad which fhall 
Be defcribed hereafter, in their proper places ssrsci a3 cuclo y ~ } 
Fernan Cofon, in the life of his Father Chriftopher, f. 29. tells us that in the 
year 1492. inthe firft. Voyage for Ameri¢s, (that, they were very much 
frighted in meeting with this, which was fo thick as to retard their failing, 
judging by it that they were not far from Rocks or Land, efpecially when 
they found a live Crab (Gambare vive, ill cranflared in / urchas a Grafhopper) 
among it. f.74. he farther fays that they met with this 19 the Bay of Samana in 
4difpaviola near the Land in Shallow Water, from whence they fuppofed what 
they met with before, had been: when ripe feparated, and. carricd iato the 
Sea. And f-a5. he relates that-in. their firlt Voyage ghey found of, it two 
hundred and fixty three Leagues Weft of Ferro, whence in their return they 
conjectur'd; while they faild amongft it, thet they were not fo near thac 
Ifland as one hundred and fifty Leagues, though in their fecond Voyage. iid. 
f- 93 they found none.of it four hundred Leagues Welt of Gomera. He fays 
alfo, f r1o. that it was to be found between Cuba, Famaica, and the Weft 
end of Aifpamislés coi bie Qocoiddeiutsn cit ni slews, : 
Oviedo’s account of itis, that ’tis found in feveral places, and quantities 
according to the Seafons, Winds,. atkl Currents, even fometimes half way to 
the Zndies. | 
.. Thevet and de Lery mention, chat in their Voyage from Brafle for the 
{pace of fifteen days, they met with fo much-of this under the Tropic of 
Cancer, that they were forc'd to curtheir way.threugh it, though on their be- 
ing apprchenfive of Shoals, and founding with theit Lead, they had no 
ground by fifty Fathoms Line. Thelike fays Aceffa,adding: that as they clear'd 
the bundies of it fronv the Ship mote rofe (as they fuppofed) from the bor- 
tom of the Sea. Linfcheten relates much’ the fanse, and. that he found it 
of the! Cape Verd Iflands; forty Leagues from.J.and, from 20°. to 24°. of 
Latitude. Welfh in his Voyage obfcrv'd it off of Guinea, from 30°. to 32°, 
North Latitude. Cliffe-ander the Tropic of Cancer for one hundred Leagues. 
Payton from 22°. 3’. North Latitude to 30°. Pyrard de la Val from 21°. 
to 30% Finton, that they judged it ro béedtiven from the Cape Verd 
Hlands,.: by ‘the EafeWVinds, of which opinion was Mande/flo, who faw it 
from 20°. t6 24° Latsione hundred: and fifty: Leagues of of Africa, though 
he fays fome were of opinion ‘ic:came from the Wefl-Jedics.. From all which 
ft is very likely thatoic may: pedvweksi wellods Cape. Véerd Mflands, as in 
the American Ocean and Ifles, and that it is carried to Sea,, aad Aoats,in it 
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