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Part I. p. 17. Thus again we are informed, that in the mines 

 of Huaj annate, N. of Mexico, there are petrifactions which, in 

 whatever direction they are divided, always exhibit an exact 

 imitation of a cedar tree. [Letter of Don Jofeph Anthony de 

 Alzate, to the Academy of Sciences at Paris.] 



There are fo many of the fuppofed foffil animals unknown, that 

 Efper publimed, in 1774, a Folio, at Nuremberg, of feveral y 

 with coloured engravings. 



" Cataclyfmi Univerfalis certa rudera ego nondum attigi."' 

 Linnaeus's Introduction to his Regnum Lapideum. 



Shells, in rude times, may have pafled for money, as they do 

 now in fome parts of Afia. Why therefore may they not have- 

 been fometimes buried under ground, as coin was generally fe- 

 creted, before paper credit took place I 



ADDENDA to the History of the Gwedir family^ 



P. 356. 



I HAVE received the following infcription, in Wimble- 

 don Church, from Mr. Jones, of Park-ffcreet, Weitminfter, and 

 F. S. A. to whom I have not only this obligation. 



" Hie jacet Ricardus Wynn de Gwedir, in comitatu de Car- 

 " narvon, M. et Baronettus, Thefaurarius, necnon Conciliarius ho- 

 " noratiflimi principis, & Henriettae Marine Reginae, qui linea pa- 

 " rentali ex illuftri ilia familia & antiquiffima ftirpe Britannica 

 " North wall ise principum oriundus, denatus 1 9 die Julii, 1640. 

 " aet. 61." 



In the Temple Church there alfo is a monument to Henry 

 Wynn of Gwedir, who died in 1671. 



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