 There are found in the north parts of Scotland, and the islands adjacent, called Orchades, certain trees whereon do grow certain shells of a white colour, tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures; which shells, in time of maturity,...  The Dublin Journal of Medical Science - Page 81878Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Folklore - 1889 - 378 pages
...parts of Scotland, and the isles adjacent, called Orcades, certain trees, whereon do grow small fishes, of a white colour, tending to russet, wherein are...things which, falling into the water, do become fowls, whom we call barnacles, in the north of England brant-geese, and in Lancashire tree-geese; but the... | |
 | Science - 1889 - 900 pages
...and the isles adjacent, called Orcades, certain trees whereon do grow small fishes of a white color, tending to russet, wherein are contained little living...things which, falling into the water, do become fowls whom we call barnacles, in the north of England brant geese, and in Lancaster tree geese ; but the... | |
 | Sir Edwin Ray Lankester - Natural history - 1915 - 488 pages
...colour tending to russett, wherein are contained little creatures which shels in time of maturity doe open and out of them grow those little living things which, falling into the water, doe become foules whom we call Barnacles, in the north of England Brent Geese, and in Lancashire Tree... | |
 | Izaak Walton - Fishing - 1915 - 432 pages
...tending to russet ; wherein are conteined little living creatures : which shels in time of maturitie doe open, and out of them grow those little living things ; which falling into water, doe become foules, whom we call Barnakles, in the North of England Brant Geese, and in Lancashire... | |
 | Herbert Stanley Redgrove - Alchemy - 1920 - 292 pages
...tending to russet; wherein are conteined little liuing creatures : which shells in time of maturitie doe open, and out of them grow those little living things ; which falling into the water, doe become foules, whom we call Barnakles . . . but the other that do fall vpon the land, perish and... | |
 | Herbert Stanley Redgrove - Alchemy - 1920 - 294 pages
...tending to russet ; wherein are conteined little liuing creatures : which shells in time of maturitie doe open, and out of them grow those little living things ; which falling 1 See F. MAX MUELLER'S Lectures on the Science of Language (1885), where a very full account of the... | |
 | Seton Paul Gordon - Birds - 1922 - 300 pages
...tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures; which shells in time of maturity doe open and out of them grow those little living things, which falling into the water do become fowles, which we call Barnacles; in the North of England, brant geese; and in Lancashire, tree geese."... | |
 | Edward Heron-Allen - Barnacles - 1928 - 220 pages
...tending to russet, wherein are contained little living creatures : which shells in time of maturity doe open, and out of them grow those little living things which, falling into the water, doe become fowles, which we call Barnacles: in the North of England, brant geese; and in Lancashire... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 564 pages
...(Polypodium Urrronyetz*) ! What shall we say to Gerardc's Barnacle-tree, ' whereon do grow certaine shells of a white colour tending to russet, wherein...living things, which falling into the water do become fowles, which we call Barnacles ?' What monsters (such at least they are called by botanists) has art... | |
 | John Marston - Drama - 1999 - 268 pages
...bearing Geese: 'There are found in the North parts of Scotland the islands adjacent, called Orcades, certain trees whereon do grow certain shells of a...the water do become fowls, which we call barnacles [ie barnacle geese]'. The rapid and extraordinary development of the mythical barnacle (like that of... | |
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