178 CURIOUS CREATURES. 



Barnacle goose thus : " Those geese were o'f a perfit 

 red colour, such as come to Holland about Weiringen, 

 and every yeere are there taken in abundance, but till 

 this time, it was never knowne where they hatcht their 

 egges, so that some men have taken upon them to write 



that they sit upon trees in Scotland, that hang over the 

 water, and such eggs that fall from them downe into the 

 water, become young geese, and swim there out of the 

 water : but those that fall upon the land, burst asunder, 

 and are lost ; but that is now found to be contrary, that 



