250 BARNACI/ES. 



" There is a small island in Lancashire, called the Pile 

 of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old 

 and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by 

 shipwracke, and also the trunks or bodies, with the 

 branches, of old and rotten trees, cast, up there likewise ; 

 whereon is found a certaine spume, or froth, that in time 

 breedeth unto certaine shels, in shape like those of the 

 muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, 

 wherein is contained a thing in forme like a lace of silke, 



run IJARXACLE GOoSk TREK. From Geranl '. 



finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour ; one 

 ende whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even 



