66 MEMOIR OF 



Somersetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, Dorset- 

 shire, Wiltshire, and Hampshire in July follow- 

 ing, noticing a multitude of objects, which may 

 well be supposed to have interested men whose 

 attention was not confined to one branch of 

 Natural History, but who, knowing the relation 

 to each other of air objects- of knowledge, near or 

 remote, extended their acquaintance to whatever 

 presented itself, while, nevertheless pursuing 

 chiefly one particular design. 



Among other things, they noticed, on their way 

 from Nantwich to West-Chester at Birkly, " a 

 pool on my Lord Cholmonefeley's ground, made 

 by the falling in of the earth about, the year 

 1657 ; and which," adds Mr Ray, " Mr Willughby 

 has described.*" This description is not, how- 

 ever, to be found. 



This second excursion is still more replete with 

 interest than the former ; both are written without 

 distinguishing what each observed separately. 

 They are the Diary, or y as Dr Derham has rightly 

 named them* the " Itineraries" of their observa- 

 tions, as it should seem daily committed to 

 writing by one of them in the name of both. 



Mr Willughby probably continued his journey 

 alone for a short time ; for in the Philosophical 

 Letters he writes to Mr Ray,* " I met with 

 several adventures in the remaining part of roy 

 journey after I left you. You may remember 

 the day we parted I had intended to have gone 



* Page 5, The letter is not dated. 



