...the fishers call it the Sea Mous. Scolopendra marina nostras. SECT. " But what our eyes have secrie, and hands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships,...

...celebrated naturalist, and his account is so curious, that we shall give it in his own words: — " But what our eyes have seen, and hands have touched, we shall declare : There is a small island in Lancashire, (on the western coast of England,) called " The Pile of Flanders," wherein are found...

...appearance of the animal. Gerard the botanist, however, thus writes from his own personal observation : " What our eyes have seen and hands have touched we shall declare." On the trunks and branches of old trees cast up by the sea, " is found a certaine spume or froth, that...

...our readers, we think, may be both amused and surprised. " What our eyes have seen," says Gerard, " and hands have touched, we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire, called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found broken pieces of old and bruised ships,...

...whereon to rest a doubt, thus gives ba evidence in his Herbal : — ' But what our eyes have seene and hands have touched we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire, called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised...

...mouths of people of those parts, which may very well accord with truth. *' But what our eyes have scene and hands have touched we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Hill of Flounders, wherein are found in the broken pieces of old ships, some...

...former times, believed came out of these little shells : pray guess." " I suppose some sort of fish," said Harry. " No — but a bird ! a goose ! a great...place and bid Harry read on without knowing where this place was. " ' There- is a small island, wherein are found the broken pieces of old bruised ships,...

...now let me read this to you, or read for yourself, if you please, and can read my small handwriting." Harry read as follows : — " ' What our eyes have...touched, we shall declare. There is a small island — ' " " ' There is a small island, wherein are found the broken pieces of old bruised ships, some...

...moreover prefaces it with a voucher, that tellers of marvellous tales are apt freely to offer, —" What our eyes have seen, and hands have touched, we shall declare." Nor is this all, for he favours us with a figure representing the metamorphosis going on. The barnacle...

...Cervantes. Gerard, in his Herbal, published 1636, writes as follows : — " But what our eyes have scene, and hands have touched, we shall declare : There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships,...