( SOI ) 
Davies at the end of the Welfi Dictionary : So I thought 
it better trefpaiSng orr the Gentleman’s patience that 
lent it, than fofe fuch an Opportunity as perhaps will 
not occur again in my Travels. This is the occafion of 
my long Silence the tranfcribing of that Book 
taking up two Months of our time. 
I fent Mr. Ray an Account of fome Plants we met 
with, with three or four Figures, which perhaps you 
have feen. We have fince found two or three others, 
which 1 had never met with before; viz . t. Lyfintachu 
Cftani£mrion diffa Alpina C. B. Prodr. 2 . Bi folium mini*- 
mum. 3. Solanifolia Circ<ea Alpina C. B. 4. Mr. Ray’s AF 
fine fpuria puflla repens foliis Saxifrage aureas. We found 
indeed the Firft alfo laft Year at Hyfvae, one of the Bills 
of Snowdon 3 and 1 had formerly fent Mr. Rap a dried 
Leaf. Dr. Richardfon brought it home with him laft 
Year $ and it flowring fince in his Garden, he is fully 
fatisfy’d it isdiftind from the Common French Wil-- 
low-Herb. 
In a fteep Rock called Craig y park , and others in the 
Parifh of TJlrad Dyvodog , we observed divers Veins of 
Coal, expofed to fight as naked as the Rock ^ and found 
a Flint Axe, fomewhat like thofe ufed by the Amiri* - 
cans. - 
At Goldcliff in Monmouthfire we had Tome variety of 
form’d Stones : But what pleafed me m oft was an A fieri a, 
or Column Star-Stone, befet with Sprigs the whole 
length of it, ifluing from the Commiflures oi the 
Plates. 
T.iiis County abounds with Fntrochi $ one whereof 4 
faw in a Rock at the Ifle of Barry, above 1$ Inches in 
length t, and another about 10 Inches long, but as thick 
as a Cane. We took their Figuresand Dimenfions, but 
cotold not- get off the Stones without breaking.. 
At Kaer fhiiy Caftle the People (hewed us an Inforjp- 
(son (as they fuppofed) on. one of she Steps of the 
Tower 
