27 2 Sir Hans Sloane to Mr. Ray. 



are both coniferous Trees, and one has a Seed pap* 

 pous, or rather feathered, like the Seeds of Viorna % 

 but with thofe Seeds of Feathers flicking between the 

 Scales, it makes one of the lovelieft Cones I ever be- 

 held, if you add that the Leaves are covered with 

 the longeft, whiteft, and thickeft Momentum I ever 

 faw, being elfe like to the Leaves of a Willow. The 

 other Cone has \ its Seed in the middle* and not be- 

 tween the Scales, but at tt>p of the Cone together} 

 and is alfo feathered. 



Mr. Kzy's Anfwer to Sir Hans Sloane. 



"T7" O U have done well in procuring Rauwolfs Iti- 

 nerai y to be tranflated and published in Englijh* 

 I wonder indeed fo good a Book hath lain fo long 

 locked up in High Dutch. The Tranflator hath done 

 his Part as well as could be expefted from a Foreigner : 

 I have revifed it, and alter'd the Phrafe and Language 

 where I thought it lefs Grammatical, or confonant to 

 the Idiom of the Englijh Tongue, or to the Words 

 approved now, by Ufe among the learned and civil. 

 Part of the Nation. Annotations (either parallel or 

 additional out of other Writers, or corrective, or fig- 

 nificative of the partial Alterations of Cuftoms and 

 Manners fince Rauwolfs Time, which, as Captain 

 Hatton fuggefted to me well, muft in all likelihood 

 have happened in the Space of above an hundred 

 Years) I have had no Leifure to add, but have re- 

 ferred that Task to Dr. Robinfon, who I hope, will 

 perform it well. A Catalogue of more rare Oriental 

 Plants growing in thofe Parts where Rauwolf travel- 

 lee^ I have drawn up, to be added to the End of the 



Work, 



