SIR ROBERT SIBBALD. 55 



the bellie, nor yett soe black as the rest of his 

 bodie, the taill had lairge whyte spotts on eadi 

 syae. 



Edin. lltkNovr. 1699. 



SIR, I gave vow many thanks for the 

 inscriptions yow sent me and the fossils. I have 

 not Lister by me to compare them and give yow 

 so perfect ane account as I could wish, but yow 

 shall haue my owne thoughts. These in the 

 Number I. I take to be Pectenculites. 



These of the Number 2nd. which taper some- 

 what, seem to me to be fragments of the Belem- 

 nites ; in the 3 paper there is a Nerites, and with 

 it the radiolus of ane Entrochus very pretty. 



Number 4 is a collection of Entrochi. 



Number 5 is Entrochi compressi et magis com- 

 planati. 



Number 6 seem to be Turbinat, but are so 

 broken, that I cannot reduce them to a certain 

 tribe. I could wish to haue some of them inteir. 



I ame glad yow haue found another Roman 

 inscription, I beseach yow to let me haue a copie 

 of it, and ane account of Caderwood's MS. 

 History yow haue. I must confess I never saw 

 yet any satisfactory account of the original 5 or 

 6 stances, though ther be severall ingenious 

 hypothesises about them which yow are acquaint 

 with. Wee haue gote here some poems of 



