JOURNEY TOTHE 
ConTINENT, 
1765. 
Lr ComrTe DE 
Burron. 
OF MY LITERARY, LIFE. 
been formed. Thefe I keep, not only in refpect to his me- 
mory, but as curious teftimonies of his faithful and elegant 
pencil. 
I dedicated the Britifo Zoology to the benefit of the Wel/h 
{chool, near Gray’s-znn-lane, London, and fupported the far greater 
part of the expence. I loft confiderably by it, notwithftanding 
feveral gentlemen contributed. My agent was that very honeft 
man, Mr. Richard Morris, of the navy office. His widow was 
leit in narrow circumftances, I therefore permitted her to keep 
the plates, and make what advantage fhe could of them. I 
was, at the time of undertaking this work, unexperienced in 
thefe affairs, and was ill-advifed to publifh on fuch large paper; 
had it been originally in quarto, the fchool would have been 
confiderably benefited by it. 
Tuts work was for a time left unfinifhed, by reafon of a 
fhort tour J made to the continent. I left London on February 
the roth, 1765, paffed through St. Omer, Aire, Arras, Perron, 
and acrofs the great foreft to Chaniilli, and from thence to Paris. 
I made fome ftay at that capital, and was during the time made 
happy in the company of the celebrated naturalift Le Comte de 
Buffen, with whom I pafied much of the time. He was fatif- 
fied with my proficiency in natural hiftory, and publickly ac- 
knowleged his favorable fentiments of my ftudies in the fif. 
teenth volume of his Hi/foire Naturelle. Unfortunately, lone 
before I had any thoughts of enjoying the honor of his ac- 
quaintance, I had, in my Britifo Zoology, made a comparifon 
between the free-thinking philofopher and our great and re- 
ligious countryman Mr. Ray, much to the advantage of the lat- 
ter. The fubject was a Mole, really too ridiculous to have been 
noticed ; 
