Mr. Ray to Sir Hans Sloane. 273 



Work} referring fuch as are found therein to the Page 

 where they are mentioned or defcribed. 



The Work you mention of Martin's, &c. muft 

 needs be a curious Piece, if well done, and deferves 

 •to be tranflated and publilhed : If well done I fay * 

 for if Martin did not take Notes from the Plants and 

 Animals lying before him, but diftated to FogeJius 

 from his Memory, his Descriptions cannot be exa£fc. 



The two Trees you mention from the Cape of 

 Good-hope are very curious, Angular and extraordi- 

 nary. 



I am forry my Book wanted the Advantage your 

 Memoirs and Figures would have given it, in refe- 

 rence to the Earthquake at Jamaica : But my Descri- 

 ption and Notes concerning it were huddled up in 

 Hafte, (the Prefs flopping all that while) and fent up 

 to London in loofe Papers, as you may perceive by 

 the Confufednefs of them ; and truly you did not 

 then come into my Mind, elfe I fliould have made 

 them ftay a little longer, till I had written to you 

 concerning it. If ever the Book come to another 

 Impreflion, they may then be added to it. 



Black Not ley, April 10. —93. 



Mr. Lhwyd to Mr. Ray. 



SIR) Oxford, Dec. iz. 1693. 



I Obferved near Kidwely in Caermardhinjhire this 

 laft Summer, that the Gryllo-Talp^e live there in 

 the Sea-Lands that are covered every Tide. I brought 

 one of them with me, and cannot find that they dif- 

 fer from thofe of the Midland Countries. In f Pales 

 they are called Rhing y Les. q. d. Stridor aftivitatis. 

 I am, &c. 



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