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A further account of fome Rock- plants 
growing in the Lead Mines ofh/icndi^ 
Hills^ mention d in the Philofophical 
Tranfaftions^ 3^(umh. up. bythem^ 
geniom Mr. John Beauniont of 
Stony-^Eafton /»Sommerfet fluVe, 
S I R, 
ISent fv90 Letters* fome years fince* to Mr. Oldenburg^ 
in which I gave h'm an account of certain J{pcj^plants 
which I had obftrv'd to grow in the Lead mines of 
Mendil^Hilli in SQmmerfetJhire : which Letters he Printed 
ia h\% Bhilofophical Tranfa^ions^ Numb. 159. I thencom- 
plain'd of my want of an Artift, whereby I might have 
furnilil'd him with th^ defign of thofe I{ockcplants which 
I rheredefcribej fuch defign being little lefs than abfo- 
lutely neceffary, for giving a clear and fatisfaftory Appre- 
henfionof the things there exprefs'd : Wherefore my pre- 
fcnt Refidence being in London^ and being gratified in that 
refped by the skilful hand of the ingenious l^chard Waller 
Efquire* a Member of the l{oyal Society ; I conceiv'd (ihtf 
lhad now little to add to the defcriptions of thofe liocJ^ 
plants which f formerly gave > that this curious defign 
which 1 here prefent you* would not be unacceptable to 
thofe Perfonsj whofe Genitts leads them to confider thefe 
things. 
