Mr. Lifter to Mr. Wray. ! ff 



Mr. Willughby was, as it were, defirpus to know 

 fomething farther of me concerning my Hiftory of 

 Spiders : The whole is yet unperfeA > but, however^ 

 I have transcribed the Tables, that he may for the 

 future join with me, and affift me in the Profecutiori 

 of my Defign; as to this Part of the Hiftory of In- 

 fers : For, for the other Parts, Imuft'neglefit them 

 jn a manner 3 but this will Hill be my particular Am^ 

 bition, to look after with Care. He may freely 

 command my Papers at any Time 5 and when you 

 have correfted the Style, (for there mull be Faults in 

 it) if you think fir, make him aPrefent of it in my 

 Name 3 or otherwife, make ufe of it as to your Ta* 

 bles now in hand. 



I thank you for the Pains you took to note my 

 Plants, and to name them 3; it is a great Satisfaction 

 to me. I have^ in Acknowledgment^ fent you the 

 Things mentioned in this Letter, viz. of our Amber 

 and Jet. One thing I muft add, that you may not 

 think that this is cafttally caft upon the Shore, for it 

 is the conftant EfFed, more of lefs, of Winter Storms % 

 and the poor drive a kind of a fmall Trade with it, 

 the Apothecaries and others buying it of them at 

 about 3^. an Ounce. Alfo I fend a Leg of the Bufe 

 fard, a preferved Medler : To thefe I add$ by way 

 gf'Prefent, a couple of Paftills, or fmall Cakes of the 

 Juices dried in the Sun, of our EngHJh Store of 

 Plants they are urmiix'd, and purely natural, as they 

 were taken from the Plants by Incifioft: The one 

 was in the drawing or iftinng out of the Plant a Pur- 

 ple Juice 5 the other of a Gold Colour : The oh6 

 burns freely with a Flame^ and is of no ofFenfive or 

 ungrateful Smell 5 the other burns not at all with a 

 Flame, at leaft continues it not, and is intoxicating : 

 They are both bitter. Guefs me the Plants that af- 

 ford them^ £5? eris rnihi^ ut rev era es$ magnus - Apollo a 

 I have a Score of different Juices befides by me in 

 Cakes j but thefe are (if I miftake not^ at leaft to the 



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