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Sodics accounted Heavf; But I am not williogj'by iotcr- 
pofiog my own CoDjedures , to pre- judge the Experi- 
sients. 
An AccouDt of Two Books* / 
I. Obprvations topographical^ Moral and Phyjiological made 
in a Jowney fhroughfart of the Low-Countries, Ger- 
many 3 Italy and France, John Ray, Fel/oip of the 
^.Society : Whereunto is added a Brief Account of f SNA' 
loughby ^5 hk Voyage through a great part of Spain. 
London, printed for J. MarcyUo Printer to the RSocietj^ 
at the BeUin St, Pauls Churchyard, 1 67 in 8°. 
THis Curious and very Inftruftive Itinerary may well 
ferve as a Pattern for Travclliog with that improvc- 
fnent and advantagCjas ought to be aimed at by all difcrcet 
Travellors^ as containing whatever is remarkable both 
for Perfons and Things in thofe places, which the Ingeni- 
ous and Inquiiitive Author together with his good Com- 
pany travelled through. Let his Reader be a Statcs-maoj 
an Ecclefiaftick^a Philofopher-> an Artift, a Trades man , a 
Father of a Family^an Hufband-maOithey will all of them 
find matter in this Book very proper for their rcfpeftiveGe- 
niuSjProfcffions and Callings. Here is defcribed the Climat, 
GoverDmentjRevenuesjLawSsCuftomSjMannerSjTcmpcrsj 
Abilities, Studies 5 Arti, Trades, and Natural Produdi- 
onsof ths Countries fpokenof^ andbcfides , divers Fa* 
bulous relations and ungrounded fancies refuted and 
redlified* 
We ftiall only hint 10 this place the principal Heads of 
fuch particulars^ as belong to the purpofe of thefe Traftss 
in reference to which is to be noted what thb Author ob- 
ferves, 
1. Of the feveral Conftitutions of Climats, and the dif- 
ference, he found,bet ween the Temperature of the Air on 
two oppofitc fides of fome Mountains, 
2. Of Waters, as the moft confidcrable Rivers andthe 
Fifties bred therein 5 Gf Springs , (the Original of which 
he difcuflfeth^ ) ebbing and flowing Wells, ^p^a?- waters 
. (particularly 
