*$ SHELLS. Class VI. 



Anatifera. L. Lin. %?. nog. Faun. Suec. No. 2 1 20. Lift* Conch. 

 9. Akati- tab. 439. 



FER.OUS. 



L. confiding of five fhells, deprefTed, affixed to 

 a pedicle, and in clutters. Tab. xxxviii. fig. 9. 



Adheres to fhips bottoms by its pedicles. 



The tent acuta from its animal are feathered -, and 

 have given our old Englijh hiftorians and naturalifls 

 the idea of a bird. They afcribed the origin of the 

 Barnacle Goofe to thefe fhells. The account given 

 by the Sage Gerard, is fo curious, that I beg leave 

 to tranfcribe it. 



4 But what our eyes have feene, and hands have 

 4 touched, we mall declare. There is a fmall 

 4 ifland in Lancajhire called the Pite of Foulders> 

 4 wherein are found the broken pieces of old 

 4 and bruifed mips, fome whereof have been cad 

 4 thither by fhipwracke, and alfo the trunks and 

 4 bodies with the branches of old and rotten trees, 

 4 cafl up there likewife -, whereon is found a cer- 

 4 taine fpume or froth that in time breedeth unto 



* certaine fhels, in fhape like thofe of the Mufkle, 

 1 but fharper pointed, and of a whitiih colour •, 



* wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace 

 4 of filkc finely woven as it were together, of a 



* whitifh colour j one end whereof is fattened unto 

 4 the in fide of the fhell, even as the filn of Oifters 

 4 and Mufkles are : the other end is made fail 



4 unto 



