TO THE 



R E A D E R. 



Fter the Death of the late juftly famed 

 Mr. Ray, his Papers mere entrujled 

 with me^ that if I thought any of them 

 might be of ufe to the learned World \ 

 I might publifh them. When I un- 

 dertook the Labour of perufing and 

 putting them in order^ I confefs I 

 thought there might have been fome draffs defigned 

 and fitted up for the Publick by an Author fo confi- 

 derable as Mr. Ray was, who had publifhed fo many 

 good things as he had done : But all that I met with 

 was his Obfervations of Infe£b, (which he lived not 

 to per f eft : , and which are already printed) and the Dia- 

 ries of his Travels about Great Britain and in Foreign 

 Parts, and his Letters to and from learned Men. His 

 Foreign Travels he publifhed himfelf > but for Brevity^ 

 I find he hath omitted many very good Obfervations 

 that well deferve to fee the Light. And as for his 

 Travels about England, Scotland, and Wales, / have 

 fitted them up for the Prefs^ with 'an Intent to have 



publifhed 



