Pie Te. CH. 
who afferted this, declared alfo, that they were generated out of dee 
cayed wood, or were hatched in the fhell of the Lepas Antifera, a 
marine production very common in thofe parts. It has feveral 
membranous branches or arms, and at the end of each, ts fituated a 
" multivalve fhell. The feathered beard of the fith hanging out of the 
fhell, were the fuppofed feathers or limbs of the young Tree Gee/e, 
as they were called by the projectors of this whimfical hypothefis. 
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