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XXXIX. A "Letter from Mr, Emanuel 
Mendes da Cofta, Librarian , &?c. to the 
Royal Society , to M. Maty, M. D . Sec. R. S. 
containing a Supplement to the Account of 
the Dfcovery of Native Lin^ Art . VI L 
Dear Sir, 
Read Dec. "V" Communicate to you the following para- 
18, i/66. g ra ph f rom a letter written to me by the 
Rev. William Borlafe, L L. D. and F. R. S. ofLudg- 
van, near Penfance, in Cornwall, and bearing date No- 
vember 23 lad pad. Asitis a paragraph relative to the 
native tin found in Cornwall, which I had the honour 
to communicate to the Royal Society on the 6 th of 
March lad, and is ordered to be printed ; permit me 
to beg of you to read it at the meeting to-moirow, 
that, it judged worthy by the Committee of papers, it 
may be printed with the former paper as a part oi it. 
I am, with great refpecd, 
SIR, 
your very obliged 
humble fervant, 
Royal Society houfe, 
December 17, 1,766. 
Vol. LVI. 
Emanuel Mendes da Cofta, 
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