Mr. Lhwyd to Mr. Ray. 2 if 



% liberal Education to invite him to fuch Sjtudies) to * 

 be able to amafs together. 



We obferv'd a Virginia Animal of the Cat-Kind 

 7 Foot and a half long, and another of the Colour 

 and Bignefs of our WiU Cais^ which he told us was 

 the common Houfe-Cat of Virginia : Alfo a Skunk^ 

 which he rendered Putorius Virginianus. This he: 

 told us will ftink feveral Miles, and fometimes fo in- 

 fed the Air, as to caufe aPeftilence. He ihew'd us 

 I the Horn of a Narhual curioufly wreath'd^ and about 

 f Foot long. A Danijh Gentleman told me he had 

 feen a Narhual that had been taken by fome" Ham- 

 burghers at Groneland An. 1 684, having two very long 

 Horns 5 and that he fufpe£fced they generally have fo, 

 and that the Unicorns of them are but Monfters. We 

 alfo obferv'd fome of the Cornea Lamina of a Whale 

 about 3 Foot long, and one broad, of a black Colour. 

 We have fome at our Mufaum of a whittfh Colour, 

 and about 9 Inches long : Alfo the Blade of a Sword- 

 fijh, caught about Swanzy in Glamorganshire. He 

 has feveral curious figur'd Stones and Shells, found in 

 the Weft of England and in South Walesa very ele- 

 gant Trees of' the Abrotanoides Planta Saxea Clufii^ 

 with confiderable Variety of other Pori^ Coralls^ Hor- 

 ny Sea Plants^ &c. I admired a Sort of Cornu A?n- 

 monis found fbmewhere in SomerfetJhire r refembling 

 a Nautilus * but having two Prominencies, each Side 

 • of the Aperture about as thick and taper as the End 

 of a Walking-Staff to be fcrew'd in and out. Ano- 

 ther Cornu of a Rainbow Colour, about 6 Inches Dia- 

 meter, and as thin as a Shilling, compofed of a Sort 

 of Selenitisj or Talk. The Refemblance of feveral 

 exotick Plants (as it fliotild feem to me) in a Kind of 

 Cole-flat^ found ibme where near Brifiow : They feem'd 

 to be of feveral Capillaries, and one particularly like 

 the Capillus Ven. verus- y the Signatures of the Leaves 

 tts curioufly vein'd as the real Plants h$vc. I have 

 n>om to add no more at prefent. 



