This I did fee taken out of the Sea by the Fiftiermen, 
among Sea- Weeds, and is folitary. The other two ("if 
they are diftin£lr) I have herewith fent you, defiring 
your Opinion. Among other things which the 
Fifliermen brought up, there were divers of thofe 
Marine Animals , which by Dr. Molyneux , Philof. 
Tranf n. 225'. are taken for nondefcripts, and refer 'd to 
the Claflis of Scolofendrdd Marin<^^ thefe our Fiihermeo 
call, Sea-Mice^ and are defcribed by Rondeletius, and by 
Moufet^ and Johfijon, figur'd under the Title of Ph^falus^ 
but badly. I had like to have forgot obferving to you,, 
that the Female C^ri^^i Folans is pretty well reprefented 
by Moufet, in his firft table at the end of his Book, but 
without a Name, I have fent you one of them alfo, 
which was found in Coitu with the Male Elfe very difFe- 
rent. I fliouid be glad to fee your Journal to Parls^ or 
any of thofe petrified Shells you found there, if you can 
fparethem. 
VIII* An Account of a young Mm flam with Thun- 
der and Lightnings Dec 22. i6^% from 
Ralph Thoresby, £/f 3 F.R. S. to Dr.MsLV* 
tin Lifter, FeU. CoU. Fhyf. and R. 
JEremiah Skelton^ who lived with his Vzihtt Daniel 
SkeltoH, at ff^r% in the Vicaridge of Halitfax in 
Torkfbire^ obferving a Storm coming, faid, I think it 
will be Rain, I will go and gather in fome of the Corn 
(a late Harvefl:, which has been very unkindly in feme 
parts of the North) which was out at a Farm they had 
in the Cold Edge ^ about a Quarter of a Mile from their 
own Dwelling ; while at this Work^ bringing in a Bur» 
den and calling it upon the Barn-Floor^ the Tempeft be- 
gun 
