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[caused] divide it bj one siiw. Appeared then one multitude 

 of worms throwing themselves out of sundry holes and bores of 

 this tree. Some of them were rude as they were but new shapen. 

 Some had both head, feet and wings, but they had no feathers. 

 Some of tliem were perfect-shapen fowls. At last the people 

 having ylk [each] day this tree in more admiration, brought it 

 to the kirk of Saint Andrews, beside the town of Tyre, where it 

 remains yet to our days. And within two years after happened 

 such one like tree to come into the Frith of Tay beside Dundee, 

 wormeaten and holed, full of young Geese in the same manner. 

 Such like into the port of Leith beside Edinburgh within few 

 years after happened such one like case. One ship named the 

 Christopher (after that she had lain iii years at one anchor in 

 one of thir [these] isles) was brought to Leith. And because 

 her timber (as appeared) failed, she was broken down. Incon- 

 tinent [immediately] appeared (as before) all the inward parts 

 of her wormeaten and all the holes thereof full of Geese, on 

 the same manner as we have shown. Attour [moreover] if any 

 man would allege by vain argument, that this Christopher was 

 made of such trees as grew allanerly [only] in the Isles, and 

 that all the roots and trees that grows in the said Isles, are of 

 that nature to be finally by nature of seas resolved into Geese; 

 we prove the contrary thereof by one notable example, showen 

 afore our ene [eyes]. Master Alezander Galloway, parson of 

 Kinkell, was with us in thir [these] Isles, giving his mind with 

 much earnest business to search the verity of thir [these] obscure 

 and misty doubts, and by adventure lifted up one sea tangle 

 {Laminaria saccharina Lamouroux), hanging full of mussel 

 shells from the root to the branches. Soon after he opened one 

 of thir [these] mussel shells, but then he was more astonished 

 than afore. For he saw no fish in it but one perfect shapen 

 fowl small and great ay efferyng [proportional] to the quantity 

 of the shell. This clerk knowing us right desireous of such vn- 

 couth [uncommon] things, came hastily with the said tangle, 

 and opened it to us with all circumstance afore rehearsed. By 

 thir [these] and many other reasons and examples we cannot be- 

 lieve that thir [these] Claiks are produced by any nature of trees 



