Letter 2184

[fol. 67] Hond Sr Windsor Castle Nov 13 1717 I sent you by Mr Innys your Lr to Mr Ray about the Hockssdon earth, & have it now before me in print, but wthout these Remarks you pro- mise to annex to itl wch I think necessary to advertise you of, yt I because I should be glad to have them to insert in an Appendix, I find I must of necessity make. I have forgotten what was the manifest cause of yt Bituminous earth, whether it was a place in wch they distilled Tur- pentine (as I think I was informed) & I beg the favour of you to tell me, as well as to add your other Notes. I am so tied here by being Treasurer this year, yt I fear I shall not be able to get to the Society on St Andrew: but I have some Ob- servations, wch shall be at their service, when I can to my Papers at Upmr. When you see Dr Halley, I desire the favour of (wth my humble service) to tell him I never yet received his Catalogue of ye circumjovial Eclipses he promised me, & yt I desire him to leave them for me at Mr Innyss. to be sent hither by t[…] I have found out a good Wall standing in the Merid[…] all this Castle) against wch I can fix one of my Glas[…] haps 20 foot Focus, moroer to experiment the P[…] Pole-Star: but I am afraid the Court will think […] their sight, & yt I shall want great interest to get […] you or your friends can procure for Dear Sr Your much obliged h[…]