270 CORKESPONDENCE OF RAT. 



I do believe, had not the last spring been so unusually 

 and unnaturally cold, they would have healed of them- 

 selves before summer was ended. But that also succeed- 

 ing not very warm after a cold spring, there was not heat 

 enough to do it in one of my age. And this I rather 

 think, because those on one of my legs did heal and dry 

 up at last, though long first, and not till the very end of 

 the summer. 



You need not make more haste with what you please 

 to contribute to my work of fishes and birds, of your own 

 observation in Jamaica, than will well consist with your 

 other occasions ; for, by Mr. Motte's proceedings with 

 my Catalogues, I believe that book will not come on this 

 twelvemonth yet. 



Dr. Robinson tells me of one Father Phimier, who 

 hath published at Paris two folios of West India Plants ; 

 it is like he may have anticipated some of yom' discovery. 

 I shall add no more at present but my wife's service, and 

 that I am, Sir, 



Your very affectionate and obliged friend and 



humble servant, 



Jo. Ray. 



The carrier brought me nothing from Mr. Churchill. 



Mr. Lhwyd to Mr. Ray. 



Sir, — I observed near Kidwelly, in Carmarthenshire, 

 this last summer, that the Gryllo Talpa live there in the 

 sea-lands that are covered every tide. I brought one of 

 them with me, and cannot find that they differ from those 

 of the midland counties. In Wales they are called Rhing 

 y Les., q. d. Stridor cBstivitatis. I am, &c. 

 Oxford, Dec. 13, 1693. 



