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^Bodies accounted Heavy. But I am not wHlJog^by intcr- 
pofiog my own Conjedlures , to pre- judge the Experi- 
ments. 
An Account of Two Books* 
I. Ohfervations Topographical^ Moral and Ph)fiologicat Made 
in a 'journey through part of the Low- Countries , Ger- 
many 3 Italy and France , bj John Ray , Fellow of the 
R Society : Whermnto is added a Brief Account of F. Wil* 
loughby Efq-^ his Voyage through a great part of Spain* 
London, printed for J. Mircyoa Printer to the R Society ^ 
at the Bell in St. Pauls Churchy ardy 167^. in 8**. 
THis Curious and very Inftruftivc Itinerary may well 
fcrve as a Pattern for Travelling with that improve- 
ment and advantagC5as ought to be aimed at by all difcreet 
Travellorsj as containing whatever is remarkable both 
for Pcrfons and Things in ihofe places, which the Ingeni- 
ous and Inquifitive Author together with his good Com. 
pany travelled through. Let his Reader be a States- man, 
an Ecclefiaftick^a Philofopheri an Artift, a Trades man, a 
Father of a Family^an Hufband-man^they will all of them 
find matter in this Book very proper for their refpeftiveGe- 
niuSjProfeflioDS and Callings. Here is defcribed the Climat, 
GovernmentjRevenueSjLawSjCuftoms^MannerSjTempersj 
Abilities, Studies , Arts, Trades, arid Natural Produdli- 
onsof the Countries fpoken of 5 andbefides, divers Fa- 
bulous relations and Ungrounded fancies refuted and 
redificd* 
We (hall only hint in this place the principal Heads of 
fuch particulars, as belong to the purpofe of thefe Trafts s 
in reference to which is to be noted what the Author ob- 
ferves, 
1. Of the (everal Conftitutions of CHmats, and the dif* 
fcrcDcc, he found,between the Temperature of the Air on 
two oppofite fides of fome Mountains. 
2. Of Waters^ as the moft confidcrable Rivers and the 
Fiflies bred therein. Of Springs , ("the Original of which 
he difcuffctb,) ebbing and flowing Wells, spaw-vfzttxs 
(particularly 
