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somewhat bigger than the largest packthread commonly 

 sold in shops. Also two sorts of Fucus marinus, besides 

 the common Fhasg amides [Alavia esculenta, Bory ?] The 

 one [Laminaria saccharina, Lamour,] ariseth with a 

 round stalk about the bigness of a finger, more or less, 

 and about a foot long, and then follows one only single 

 undivided broad leaf of a yard or more long, and some- 

 times three or four inches broad, wrought as it were all 

 along with extuberant lines waved to and fro ; it some- 

 what resembles a broad wrought leathern girdle or belt ; 

 the other, which is the fuciis mariniis secundm, Dod. Park. 

 \Himanthalia lorea, Lyngb.] is branched at some distance 

 from the root, and narrow, resembling thongs of whit- 

 leather. A little above the rest we found, in all that we 

 observed, a round CKcle like a rotula about the stalk, of 

 about an inch diameter or more, of the same substance 

 with the fucus, but thinner. This plant might be better 

 expressed by a figure than described by words. All 

 along in the cliffs and on the shore, are found in great 

 plenty the serpent-stones, called by naturalists in Latin 

 cornua ammonis. We were somewhat puzzled to get 

 them entire out of their matrices, the usual way of 

 heating them in the fire very hot, and then quenching 

 them in the water, not always succeeding ; many of these 

 stones were imperfect. In this cliff or rock (which is 

 nothing but alum-mine*) we found also plenty of the 

 lapides belemnites, or thunder-stones. Another sort of 

 stones we found there resembling cockles, or rather a sort 

 of muscles. There is also lajns g agates or jet, found in 

 the cliffs hereabout ; but we met not with any besides a 

 stone, which is, or resembles brass-mine. The country 

 people hereabout told us the story related by Camden, 

 that wild geese, if once they light in Whitby strand, 

 cannot rise again or fly away, as the rhyme is : 



" If the wild goose %hts in Whitby strand, 

 The least bearn that is, may take her np in his hand." 



* The term "mine" was formerly used as "ore," and here refers to the 

 lias beds of Whitby, which contain alumina. — E. L. 



