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any thing like it. The island will afford grass 

 enough to keep thirty sheep. They make strangers 

 that come to visit it Burgesses of the Basse, by 

 giving them to drink of the water of the well, which 

 springs near the top of the rock, and a flower out of 

 the garden thereby. The island is nought else but 

 a rock, and stands off the land near a mile ; at Dun- 

 bar you would not guess it above a mile distant, 

 though it be thence at least five. We found grow- 

 ing in the island, in great plenty. Beta marina, 

 Lychnis marina nostras, Malva arborea marina 

 nostras, et Cochtearia rotundi/olia." 



In this sketch, short as it is, there are several in- 

 accuracies, and yet it is on the whole more correct 

 than some later accounts of the same interesting 

 islet. 



On the restoration of Charles II., when there was 

 a prospect of peaceable times, and the church of 

 England was re-established, Mr Wray took orders, 

 though he continued a fellow of Trinity College. 

 But his views of preferment were blasted by his 

 resolution not to subscribe to the conditions implied 

 in the Act of Uniformity, by which divines were re- 

 quired to declare that the oath entitled the Solemn 

 League and Covenant was not binding on those 

 who had sworn it. The reason of his refusal did 

 not, however, arise from his having himself taken 

 the oath, which he never did, having always believed 

 it to be unlawful, but from his considering those 

 who had taken it as still under an obligation to 

 abide by it. In consequence of this opinion he deem- 

 ed it proper to resign his fellowship in 1662. 



On leaving Cambridge he resolved to go to the 

 Continent, with the view of extending his know- 



