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BARNACLES. 
“ There is a small island in Lancashire, called the Pile 
of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old 
and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by 
shipwracke, and also the trunks or bodies, with the 
branches, of old and rotten trees, cast up there likewise ; 
whereon is found a certaine spume, or froth, that in time 
breedeth unto certaine shels, in shape like those of the 
muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, 
wherein is contained a thing in forme like a lace of silke, 
finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour ; one 
ende whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even 
