64 LETTERS TO MERRETT. 



fat & fayre of x ounces wayght — jet more often found I 

 haue an handsom peece of xii ounces in wayet. 



No. III. 



[FOL. 40 verso.] 



" My third letter Sept xiii." 



Sr I receaued your courteous Letter and with all 

 respects I now agayne salute you. 



The mola piscis is almost yearely taken on our coast 

 [see Note 58] this [last crossed out] year one was taken 

 of about 2 hundred pounds wayght diuers of them I 

 haue opened & haue found many lyce sticking close 

 vnto thier gills whereof I send you some. 



In your pinax I find onocrotalus or pellican \^see Note 

 25] whether you meane those at St. James or others 

 brought ouer or such as haue been taken or killed heere 

 I knowe not. I haue one hangd up in my howse wch 

 was shott in a fenne ten miles of about 4 yeares ago and 

 because it was so rare some conjectured it might bee 

 one of those which belonged vnto the King & flewe 

 away. 



Ciconia rar6 hue aduolat. I haue seen two [see Note 

 14] one in a watery marsh 8 miles of, another shott 

 whose case is yet to bee seen. [See Appendix D.] 



Vitulus marinus. In tractibus borealibus et Scotia 

 [see Note 53]. no raritie upon the coast of Norfolk at 

 a lowe water I haue knowne them taken asleep vnder 

 the cliffes. diuers haue been brought vnto mee. our 

 seale is different from the Mediterranean scale, as 

 hauing a rounder head a shorter and stronger body. 



Rana piscatrix I haue often known taken on our 

 coast & some very large [see Note 59]. 



Xiphias or gladius piscis or sword fish wee haue in 

 our seas [see Note 55]. I haue the head of one which 



