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their senaries, and tlie things he imagines to happen in 

 them (of which see the Philos. Trans., No. 202). Also 

 to the repositing of fossil-shells in high mountains, the 

 life and health of animals, and some other matters. But 

 because the letters are long (not to say tedious by reason 

 the hypothesis is abstruse and somewhat strained), I 

 have thought they would take up too much room, unless 

 I could have been so happy as to have obtained Mr. Ray's 

 answers, which no doubt were very considerable ; but that 

 I could not do with my greatest diligence. 



W. D[erham]. 



Mr. Ray to Dr. Robinson. 



Sir, — You are, I perceive, not as yet satisfied with the 

 addition of Provincial Catalogues to Camden ; to which 

 I reply, that I am not concerned for the beauty or de- 

 corum of the work : let the undertakers look to that. As 

 for these Catalogues, I have promised them, and they have 

 accepted, and I must be as good as my word. 1 have 

 already sent up those from Cornwall to Kent, and have 

 received a letter of thanks from Mr. Gibson, who manages 

 the whole work for them, and seems by his writing to be 

 a good scholar and ingenious person ; so that I perceive 

 they have a great opinion of my contributions, and better 

 I think than they do deserve. I have, upon your sug- 

 gestion, made more additions to Cornwall : as first, I 

 have given them a general catalogue of all the sea-fish 

 taken on those coasts, with synonymes. 2. A catalogue 

 of the more rare sea-fowl. 3. An account of two or three 

 sorts of stones digged there. 4. A short account of the 

 improvement of the soil by sea-sand. 5. A more full 

 description of some antiquities, viz. the Hurlers and other 

 stones. 6. Something of the manners and language of 

 the present inhabitants. As for other counties, I told 

 them I had neither will, nor skill, nor leisure to do the 

 like. 



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