SIR ROBERT SIBBALD. 
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the bellie, nor yett soe black as the rest of his 
bodie, the taill had lairge whyte spotts on each 
syde. 
Edin. 1 W/t Novr. 1699. 
Sir, — I gave yow many thanks for the 
inscriptions yow sent me and the fossils. I have 
not Lister by me to compare them and give yow 
so perfect ane account as I could wish, but yow 
shall haue my owne thoughts. These in the 
Number I. I take to be Pectenculites. 
These of the Number 2nd. which taper some- 
what, seem to me to be fragments of the Belem- 
nites ; in the 3 paper there is a Nerites, and with 
it the radiolus of ane Entrochus very pretty. 
Number 4 is a collection of Entrochi. 
Number 5 is Entrochi compressi et magis com- 
planati. 
Number 6 seem to be Turbinat, but are so 
broken, that I cannot reduce them to a certain 
tribe. I could wish to haue some of them inteir. 
I ame glad yow haue found another Roman 
inscription, I beseaeh yow to let me haue a copie 
of it, and ane account of Caderwood’s MS. 
History yow haue. I must confess I never saw 
yet any satisfactory account of the original 5 or 
6 stances, though ther be severall ingenious 
hypothesises about them which yow are acquaint 
with. Wee haue gote here some poems of 
