Tent, who fent a Verbal Procefs to the Cdurt, without 
acquainting me with it, or offering any Obje&iop, 
although I had very much prefs’d them to it, in order 
to obviate the Prejudices might be conceiv’d againfl 
this Novelty. } _ 0 i 
At my Return to Paris , Mr. ie Salabery , furpriz’d 
at my knowing nothing of that Account, gave it me 
to anfwer, which I did Paragraph by Paragraph : The 
whole was given to a general Officer then at Court to 
examine, and make a Report of it, the Refult of which 
was. That this Invention ought to be put in Pra&ice. 

! 
XII. Part of a Letter from the Revercncl 
Mr. Rowlands., to the Reverend Mr . Der- 
ham, Prebendary of Windfor, and Ft R. S. 
Concerning the flocking of the River Mene with 
Oyflers 
# 7T" > H E River of Mene , that divides Angle fey from 
1 Carnarvonflrire , near which I live, has at .pre* 
fent the Bottom of its Channel for 'Tome Miles in 
length, all bedded with good Oyflers, in fuch Plenty, 
that in the Seafon, feveral Boats are daily empoly’d 
to dredge them up, and have done fo thefe eight or 
nine Years lafl pad to their great Profit ; but what I 
recommend as obfervable, is, that about twenty four 
'.Y'ears ago, we have good Aflurance, that there were 
none to be found on that Bottom : but that a Gentle- 
_man r about that Time, caufed three or four hundred 
