Mr. Ray to Dr. Robinfbn 



S IR, 



Oncerhing the Catalogue bf local Words*) I fliall 

 add nothing till I hear farther from you, fave 

 that a Friend, whom cafu&lly I met withal laft Week, 

 asked me coricernihg that Catalogue, and told me that 

 he had made a Collection of a few Words proper to this 

 County, which he was willing to communicate, ia 

 cafe thb Bdok cdme to a fecond Edition. 



Upon this Occafion I cannot but take Notice* 

 that as if Divine Providence govern'd even fuch fmall 

 Matters, when I have been about to publifh, or in 

 publifliing a Work, there have been cafually offered 

 to mte> without my own or Friends Procurement^ at 

 that very time, fome Affiftances or Contributions by 

 mere Strangers, and fuch as knew nothing of the 

 preferit Publication j dr at leaft fuch as I made no Ad- 

 drefs to§ nor expected any thing from. Mr. Lloyd 

 lately Wrote me word of a ftrange Snail Mr. Charle- 

 ton had received from Surinam, which was not above 

 the Bignefs of a Pullets Egg, yet laid an Egg as big 

 as a Sparrow^ and that the young one hatch'd of it 

 'was twice as big as the Egg $ of which Particulars 

 I defire Confirmation from you. 



Black Notley, May 16. — 90. 



Dr. Robinlbn to Mr. Ray. < 



8 1 R, London, May 17. • — 96 ± 



MR. Charhton has fuch a Snail Shell, as you men- 

 tion, with Eggs and young ones, which are 

 the Wonder of our Philofophers here 3 but I being 



G g naturally 



