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two years after happened such one like tree to come 

 into the firth of Tay beside Dundee, worm-eaten and 

 holed, full of young geese in the same manner. 

 Suchlike 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. 

 Incontinent (immediately) appeared (as afore) all 

 the inward parts of her worm-eatin and all the holes 

 thereof full of geese, on the same manner as we have 

 shown. Attoure (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 finaly by 

 nature of seas resolved into geese; we prove the 

 contrary thereof by one notable example, showen 

 afore our ene (eyes). Master Alexander Galloway, 

 parson of Kinkell, was with us in thir (these) Isles, 

 giving his mind with most earnest business to search 

 the verity of thir (these) obscure and misty doubts. 

 And by adventure lifted up one sea tangle (Lami- 

 naria 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 

 desirous of such vncouth (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 can not 

 believe, that thir (these) claiks are produced by any 

 nature of trees or roots thereof, but allanerly (only) 



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