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the other of the present lord Roberts his grandfather. 

 Here is an indifferent good key. About the key grows 

 plentifully a kind of Thlaspi \Lepidium ruder ale, Linn.,] 

 which we are wont to call TIdaspi minus foL nasturtii 

 hortens q. They dredge up from the bottom of the sea 

 abundance of a sort of white coral, among the sand 

 wherewith they manure their land, and an infinite number 

 of small turbines or buccinse. I suppose the bottom of 

 the sea is thereabout, where they take up this sand, all 

 over covered with this coral. They find also on this 

 coast the shells of the JEcliini marini. 



Monday, June the 30th, we rode over the sands to 

 St. Ives. There we saw a chu.rch almost quite covered 

 with sand, blown up by the wind ; the name is Uny 

 Lalant. Here is a pretty little fortification which they 

 call the castle. We saw also here some of the young 

 murres, a bird black on the head and back, white under 

 the breast and belly, and hath a black and sharp bill, 

 black feet, whole footed. We were assured that the 

 Cornish murre \Alca torda] is nothing else but the 

 razor-bill. All along the cliffs, as we rode upon the 

 sand toward St. Ives, grew Fceniculum vidgare [Fcenicu- 

 lum officinale, AIL] in great plenty. St. Ives is a borough 

 town, governed by a mayor and aldermen. There are a 

 great many houses to the north of the town, which (as 

 well as the church) are almost buried or overwhelmed 

 with sand, blown up there by the wind in stormy 

 weather. On a rock, a little above the town, to the 

 north, stands a little chapel dedicated to St. Iva, as they 

 say. The people of Britanny drive a great trade here 

 for Baice, [different species of skate,] which they dry in 

 the sun, and then carry away. In exchange for this, 

 they bring salt. The inhabitants of this town are of 

 opinion, that their fish are better and more daintily tasted 

 than those taken about Pensance, or anywhere on the 

 other side of the country, because theirs lie and feed upon 

 the sand, and the others on ouze or mud. The fish taken 

 about St. Ives, are salmon-peal, ling, codfish, mullet, bass. 



