Mr. Ray to Dr. Robinfbn. 277 



have upon your Suggeftion made more Additions to 

 Cornwall : As firft, I have given them a general Ca- 

 talogue of all the Sea-Fijh taken on thofe Coafts with 1 

 Synonymes. z. A Catalogue of the more rare Sea- 

 Fowl. .3. An Account of two or three Sorts of 

 Stones digged there. 4. A fliort Account of the Im- 

 provement of tfpe Soil by Sea-Sand, f . A more full 

 Defcription of fome Antiquities , viz. the Hurler s, and 

 other Stones. 6. Something of the Manners and 

 Language of the prefent Inhabitants, j^s for other 

 Counties, I told them I had neither Will, nor Skill, 

 nor Leifure, to do the like. 



The Metals, Minerals, and other FoffiJs, are many 

 of them taken notice of by Camden in the Places 

 where they are found : And as for the Plants, had he 

 known what had been rare and peculiar in every 

 County, I perceive, by what he hath done in fome, 

 he would have mentioned them in the Places whereof 

 they are native. And now that I am fpcaking of Lo- 

 cal or Provincial Plants, give me Leave to tell you 

 that I think you labour under a Miftake, in thinking 

 and aflerting, 'that few or no Plants are peculiar to 

 this or that Shire. Be pleafed to refolve me where 

 Calceolus Marine, Chriftophoriana, Lyfimachia lutea 

 flore globofo, Pentaphyttoides fruticofa, Polygonatum 

 floribus ex fingularibus pediculis, Pyrola folio mucrona- 

 to [err at 0. Pyrola Alfines flore Brafiliana, Ribes Alpi- 

 nus dulcis, Salix pumila montana folio rot undo, Sedum 

 Alpinum Ericoides cteruleum, Sideritis arvenfis latifolia 

 hirfuta flo. luteo^hlafpi foliisGlobularite, Lunariavaf- 

 culo fublongo intorto, and Valeriana Gr&ca grow wild 

 but in your own native Country of Yorkfhire. I could 

 give you as large a Catalogue of Peculiars in the lit- 

 tle County of PFeflmorland. But to inftance no more 

 particular Shires 5 I {hall only add, that I know very 

 few Counties in England, wherein I could not in* 

 fiance fome Peculiars- But I am come to the End 

 of my Paper, 



