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IV. A Letter from the late iWr. Edward Lhwyd, 
L^eeper of the Afhmolean Mufeum in Oxford, 
to Dr. Tancred Robinfon, F. R. S. containing 
federal ObferVations in Natural Hijlory , made in 
his Tray els thro ’ W ales. 
S wanfey, Glamorganjhire , Sept* 14. 1696, 
Honoured Sir , 
A T Snowdon Hills we met with little or nothing ad- 
ditional to what is in Mr. Ra/s' Sjnopfis ^ only the 
little Bulb I tound plentifully in flower 3 and in one of 
the Lakes I gather’d a fmall Plant, which I fufped to 
be undeferib’d. I have given Orders to watch the 
SubuUria 5 but the Lake where it grows is fo high, that 
Merc have feldom occafion to come near it, fo that I 
have but. {lender hopes of any account of its flowering. 
I fent Roots of what rare Plants I met with, to the 
Duke of Beaufort’ s, ray Lord of London's, and the Phy- 
Eck Garden at Oxford 3 and planted many of them at 
the Bifhop of Bangor's Garden, which is about 7 Miles 
from theie Mountains. I have dried feverai Paterns of 
moft of them $ as alfo of fuch Plants as our Sea Coafts 
afford, which are confiderable for Number 5 amongft 
which I think I have two or three undeferib’d. 
I fearched diligently in thefe Mountains for Figured 
Stones 5 but met with none at all, except cubical Mar- 
chafites, and Cryftals, whereof I found one about 9 
Inches long, and thicker than my Wrift, tranfparent as 
Glafs for the better half, but opaque towards the Root 
like white Marble. Some fmall ones I met with of the 
colour 
