[_Fol. 106._] I am sorry I have had [diuersions _above_] of such necessitie, as to hinder my more sudden salute since I receiued your last. I thank you for the sight of the _Sperma Ceti_, and such kind of effects from [Lightning & Thunder _written above_] I have known and about 4 yeares ago about this towne when I with many others saw fire-balls fly & go of when they met with resistance, and one carried away the tiles and boards of a leucomb Window of my owne howse, being higher then the neighbour howses & breaking agaynst it with a report like a good canon. I set downe that occurrence in this citty & country, & haue it somewhere [in _crossed out_] amongst my papers, and fragments of a woman's hat that was shiuered into pieces of the bignesse of a groat. I haue still by mee a little of the spermaceti of our whale, as also the oyle & balsome wch I made with the oyle & spermaceti. Our whale was worth 500 lib. my Apothecarie got about fiftie pounds in one sale of a quantitie of sperm [_see Note 51_]. I made enumeration of the excretions of the oake which might bee obserued in england [_see Note 112_], because I conceived they would bee most obseruable if you set them downe together, not minding whether there were any addition by excrementum fungosum vermiculis scatens I only meant an vsuall excretion, soft & fungous at first & pale & sometimes couered in part with a fresh red growing close vnto the sprouts. first full of maggots in little woodden cells which afterwards turne into little reddish browne or bay flies. of the tubera indica vermiculis scatentia I send you a peece, they are as bigg as good Tennis-balls & ligneous. The little elegant fucus [_see Note 114_] may come in as a difference of the abies, being somewhat like it, as also unto the 4 corrallium in Gerard of the sprouts whereof I could never find any sprouts wings Or leaves as in the abies whether fallen of I knowe not, though I call'd it icthyorachius or pisciculi spinam referens yet pray do you call it how you please I send you now the figure of a quercus mar. [inus] or alga which I found by the seashoare differing from the co[=m]on [_see Note 114_] as being denticulated & in one place there seemes to bee the beginning of some flower pod or seedvessell. [_Fol 106. verso._] A draught of the morinellus marinus or sea doterell I now send you. the bill should not have been so black & the leggs more red, [_see Note 28_] & [the _crossed out_] a greater eye of dark red in the feathers of wing and back: it is lesse & differently colourd from the co[=m]on dotterell, wch [wee haue _crossed out_] cometh to us about March & September. these sea-dotterells are often shot near the sea. A yarewhelp or barker [_some words smeared out_] [_see Note 39_] a marsh-bird the bill 2 inches long the legges about that length the bird of a brown or russet colour. That which is knowne by the name of a bee-bird [_see Note 117_] is a litle dark gray bird I hope to get one for you.