Letter 3066

[fol. 233] Hon:d Sr On wednesday last I sent yu a pott of Moregame by James Hall a Bradford Carier which I should be glad to hear came safe to yr hands & in good order; in the Box you wil find a specimen of the grass found seven or eight foot deepe under pient earth which I thought I had sent yu the last year, but it was mislayd. I take it to be gramen pantense panicuslat mosse SRE [?] alsoe a specimen of Junens montanus phlustins RS: [?] with which these mountains abounds & in the same strata of earth where these are found the root of a Fern standing in its naturel posture cut of as you wil find by a small piece of ye wood put up with the rest; there is no doubt but these high mountains nigh Bingley have been formerly coverd with Wood though now there is not the least remains of it above ground how long this acquired earth must have been growing to the thicknesse of 7 or 8 foot I wil not determine but tis manifest that it consits only of roots leaves & flowers of the Comon heath I am sorry yt I have nothing material in Nat: History to sned yu but when ever I meet with any thing that I thinke worth yr notice it shall be communicated to you by your much obliged servat [sic] Ric: Richardson North Bierley Sept. 7th 1724