[The gallant correspondent to whom we are indebted for the
foregoing satisfactory, because early and documentary, evidence of
the etymology of the now familiar term GROG, informs us that there
is a still earlier ballad on the subject. We trust that he will be
enabled to recover that also, and put it on record in our columns.]
_Barnacles_.--In a _Chorographical Description of West, or Il-Jar
Connaught_, by Rhoderic O'Flaherty, Esq., 1684, published by the Irish
Archaeological Society in 1846, the bernacle goose is thus mentioned:--
"There is the bird engendered by the sea out of timber long lying
in the sea. Some call them _clakes_, and _soland geese_, and some
puffins; others _bernacles_, because they resemble them. We call
them _girrinn_."