Mr. Lhwy d to Mr. Ray. 2 y 3 



Your Opinion of Cartilagineous Fifties poifing and 

 raifing themfelves feems probable to me. 1 am not 

 able to refolve you about thofe blood Veflels of Vi* 

 pers, Serpents and Filhes, which you mention. 



How do the Cetaceous Fijhes raife and poife them- 

 felves? I think they fpout Water- How doth the 

 Lamprey^ the Mullus^ the Anchovie, the Draco mari- 

 nus^ the Tunny ^ the Drum Fijh (Tamburo) the Ura- 

 nofcopus, the Dolphin , the Centrina , the Skate y 7*or- 

 fedo) Rana Pifcatrix, Scorpius major^ the Bull Head, 

 &c. which Signior Redi in a late Book affirms to have 

 no Air or fwimming Bladder, raife and poife them- 

 felves ? 



Mr. Lhwyd to Mr. Ray. 



Honoured Sir, 



TH E Holywell Moffe feem'd to me a variety 

 (tho' perhaps it may be a diftin<5t Species) of 

 the -Mufcus Trichomanis facie, &c. Jungermanni. The 

 common People will not have it calPd Mwfwgl [Mofle] 

 but Gwiribh; which Word is no where elfe ufed in 

 any other fignification than for a Virgin : And here 

 perhaps it may allude to the Virgin St. Winnifrid, and 

 might have been formerly calPd Gwdlht Gwiribh, i. e. 

 Capillus Virginis. Georg. Agricola # fays that the Stones 

 fmelling of Violet s f acquire that fmell from a Mofle 

 adhering to them j but TVormius in his Mufaum, 

 p. 38. fays a piece of one of thofe Stones kept in his 

 Mufteum many Years, having no Mofle adhering to it, 

 did ftill retain that Scent. I defign to fend for fome 

 of the Mofle and Stone, when I have an opportuni- 



* Be Nat. Fof l. l, c. 5, 



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