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A volume marked in pencil 'No. 2. 1807' containing Llysieuaeth Cymreig; 'sef enwau Blagur o bob rhyw...' by [Hugh Davies], being a list similar to that printed in his Welsh Botanology (1813), pp. 153-247.
The following note has been pasted inside the cover: 'Mem.dum Febry 24th 1807 9pm - I have just now finished collating this No. 2 with No. 1, & I think I may pronounce them both in perfect concord with each other. H. D.'. The catalogue is written on the recto of each folio, with some notes in pencil facing. There are also some loose notes, one written on the back of a letter from J. G., Llanfair. At the reverse end are notes 'from Scudamore' headed 'Action of Tests on mineral waters'.

A letter, 4 August 1819, from William Owen Pughe, London, to the Rev. Hugh Davies, Beaumaris, relating to Coll Gwynfa (London, 1819), Pughe's recently published translation of Milton's Paradise Lost.
Pughe quotes extracts of letters in praise of Coll Gwynfa from John Humphreys Parry (f. 23) and William Probert (f. 23 recto-verso). He also discusses the search for the so-called 'Welsh Indians' and includes a sketch of a Native-American pipe (f. 23 verso).