Of the Hiftory of Plants, 
alfodeliuered, were found by fome Hollanders tohaue another original!, and that by egges, as 
other Birds haue :for they in their third voyage to finde out the North-Eaft paffage to China, and 
the Molucco’s, about the eightieth degree and eletien minutes of Northerly latitude., found two 
little- 1 (lands, in the one ofwhich they found aboundance of theft Geefe fitting vpon their egges, 
of which they got oneGoofe, and tooke away fixty egges, &c. Vide Pontani, Rerum & vrb. Amjle- 
lodnm. Hi ft Jib. 2 . cap. 22 . Now the fhells out of which theft birds were thought to fly, are a kinde 
of Balantis marinas y and thus F alias Cotumna, in the end of his P hytobafiinos , writing pifcium aliquot 
biftoriaj. udicioufly proues : to whofe opinion I wholly fubfcribe,and to it 1 refer the Curious. His 
a (feneration is this : Conch, is vulgo o dnttif eras, non ejfeftuttus tcrrejlrcs, n equt ix ijs Estates oriri -,fed 
B don't marina fpeciem. 1 could haue laid fomthing more hereof, but thus much I thinke may ftrue, 
together with that which F alias Column a hath written vpon this point. J 
«([ T he Place. 
The borders and rotten plankes whereon are found theft fliels wherein is bred the Barnakle, are 
taken vp in a (mall Ifland adioyning to Lancafhire, halfe a mile from the maine land, called the 
PileofFoulders. 
«jf The Time. 
They fpawne as it were in March and A prill ; the Geefe are formed in May and Iune,and come 
to fulnefft of feathers in the moneth after. 
And thus hauing through Gods afliftance difcourfed fomewhat at large of Gralfes, Herbes, 
Shrubs, Trees, and Mofles, and certaine Excrefcences of the earth, with other things 
, moe, incident to the hiftorie thereof, we conclude and end our prefent 
Volume, with this wonder ofEngland. For theivhich 
Gods name be euer honored and 
praifed. 
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