"Sme Obfervations on the French M^Qttu^^ and 
Scotch Bernacle ; together with a continuation cf 
the Account of Boyling, and other Fountains. 
By Dr. Tancrcd Robinfon Fellow pf the Roy^il 
Society. 
I Find fo many miftafces amongft Natural Writers, 
andiome learned Men, concerning the Bird at P^- 
call'd Macreufe^ and in other parts of France^ Ma- 
croul, or Diable de Mer^ that I think it no improper 
fubie<9: for the entertainment of Your Curiofity. The 
ir^^r^ eat it upon Fifli-dayg, and all Lent, thinking it 
to be a fort of Fifli, or a Marine Animal with cold 
blood, or elfe a jB^r;^^^/^ generated either ont of rotten 
or corrupted wood floating japon the Sea ; or oat of cer- 
tain fruits falling into the water, and there Metamor- 
phofed into a Bird j or elfe from .4 kind of Sea-ihells ad- 
nering to old Planks and Ship bottoms, called Concha 
Anattfer(B i whereas the Bernacle ("as aUo the Macreufe it 
.felf,)is03^iparous, and of the Gops-kindj.and the fhells 
themfelves contain a t^ftaceous Animal of their own 
fpecies, as the Oyfter, Cockle, and Mufcle doth. Gefner 
himfeiffthopgh themoft learned, diligent, and faith- 
full of any that ever meddled with the fliftory of Ani- 
mals,) was lead into the firfl: errour by Gyraldus, Boethius^ 
and Turner ; Sr. B^hert fell into the third and laft 
miflake Thilofoph,Tranfa^l, N. 137. The learned Sr. 
J^pbert Sybbald, and Monjieur Graindorge have indeed 
confuted thefe sequivocall Generations of the Bernacle 
and the Macreufe , yet they both make them to be the 
izmeBird',P.rodrorn, Hiffor. N^^ap. ScQti^ .i and in the Hif' 
poire des Macreufes y whereas they are of different Tribes ; 
the Bernacle of the Goofc, and the Macreufe of the 
Duck- 
