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whereupon it (and perhaps fome others in its 

 company) fpouted the water up to fuch a 

 height, that it was both heard and feen at a 

 great diltance. 



July the 3d, 2 3 S. L. 



The fea being fmooth, our failors were 

 employed in cleanfmg the ihip. 



Some of the Lepas anatifera Linn, had 

 fattened themfelves during our voyage to the 

 ihip, and particularly to the rudder, but were 

 now all deftroyed. As foon as the water paff- 

 es over them, they flretch out their tentacula 

 like hooks to get their food by, which is ei- 

 ther the conferva rivularis which grows about 

 them, or fome other things which the water 

 carries to them. The reafon which made the 

 ancients call this lepas Concha anatifera, ap- 

 pears from Grew's Mufeum, p. 148. where 

 he fays, that fome aflert it as a certainty, that 

 in the Orcades were fome worms, which grew 

 in hollow trees, and got, in time, a head, 

 feet, wings and feathers, as perfectly as a fea- 

 bird; and that they became as large as geefe 1 . 



» Dr. Grezv did not believe this abfurd tale of the Berwi- 

 ck ; but old Gerrarde afierts, that he has feen with his own 

 eyes the feveral ftages. of this metamorphofis. 



