The doctor does not display his usual acumen when he rejects the "ancient" opinion as to the vegetable origin of Amber, see Pseudodoxia, book ii., chap. iv.; also letter from Earl of Yarmouth to T. B. (Wilkin Edit. i., p. 411).
[Fol. 40 verso.]
"My third letter Sept xiii."
Sr I receaued your courteous Letter and with all respects I now agayne salute you.
The mola piscis is almost yearely taken on our coast [[see Note 58]] this [last crossed out] year one was taken of about 2 hundred pounds wayght diuers of them I haue opened & haue found many lyce sticking close vnto thier gills whereof I send you some.
In your pinax I find onocrotalus or pellican [[see Note 25]] whether you meane those at St. James or others brought ouer or such as haue been taken or killed heere I knowe not. I haue one hangd up in my howse wch was shott in a fenne ten miles of about 4 yeares ago and because it was so rare some conjectured it might bee one of those which belonged vnto the King & flewe away.
Ciconia rarò hue aduolat. I haue seen two [[see Note 14]] one in a watery marsh 8 miles of, another shott whose case is yet to bee seen. [[See Appendix D.]]
Vitulus marinus. In tractibus borealibus et Scotia [[see Note 53]]. no raritie upon the coast of Norfolk at a lowe water I haue knowne them taken asleep vnder the cliffes. diuers haue been brought vnto mee. our seale is different from the Mediterranean seale. as hauing a rounder head a shorter and stronger body.