Letter 3817

MS 4046 Fol. 34 North Beirley Aug. 17 1723 Hon’d Sr The last year you was pleased favourably to accept of a few potted more game which induces me this season to send you the same present & shall be glad to hear they came to you in good order. You wil find in the box a few specimens of English plants, which I think you have not had from hence before alsoe the skin of a bird which frequents the viewlets perhaps it may be Tringa panlo minor of Aldrovandus I met with severall of these in Northumberland: I never met with this Bird before upon the river Tweed I observed two of the Lari kind, which I do not remember to have seen else where, one of them is as large as the great grey gull but white with its head tail & tip ends of its wings black. The other is a small darke blue one very active in catching small fishes. I have put up in the Box a few specimens of marble, which I brought from the mountains nigh simeton in Northumberland where large blocks of these & severall other beautyfull kinds may be had, I did not meet with the number of plants I expected to have met with in the north where almost every thing was burnt up especially in the mountains w (^)ch of an other season perhaps might afford more diversion to a Botanist. I tooke this trip into the north for the recovery of my health, after I had been confined for above two months by a very sharpe fitt of the gout, which has now perfectly left me with my hearty welwishes for your health I am your much obliged servant Ric: Richardson The box was sent by Taylor a Leedes Carrier on Wednesday last, he Inns at the White Horse Crupplegate