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of fome of our old Naturalills, they were 

 produced on a Tree that grows on the 

 Sea Shore in the North of Scotland ; that, 

 after a certain Time, the Shell dropped 

 its Contents into the Sea, and that it 

 there became a Bird called the Barnacle, 

 or Solan Goofe, or, as they fometimes 

 named it, the Vegetable Goofe. But the 

 Error of their Conjedures has long been 

 difcovered ; the Barnacle is found to be 

 a Shell Filh, which might fix itfelf to 

 thofe Branches of Trees that chanced to 

 be under Water ; and the Solan Goofe is 

 now known to breed like other Water 

 Fowls in the Northern Climates. It was 

 once thought, that Jamaica produced a 

 Tree which bore Cyfters, a Miftake of 

 the like Kind with that already men- 

 tioned. We fhould be flow in giving 

 Credit to whatever appears to be out of 

 the natural Courfe of Things. 



Under this Title is to be feen the Sol- 

 dier, or Hermit Crab from Jamaica. The 

 Inftinft of this little Animal is furpri- 



zing . 



