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Waller Efq*, Reg. S. Secret. (9.) An account of a Ruminat- 
ing Man, lately Living at Briftol, given in to the R. So- 
ciety by the Experienced and learned^ 'rederick Slare, M. D. 
andKzg» Soc. S. (ioJ A Letter from that incomparable 
Botanift Mr, John Ray, R. S. Soc. giving an account of the 
Phytographia^f Dr.Leonard Plukenet,M.D. lately Fubltfhed. 
An Recount of a large and curious Map of the Great 
Tartary, lately Vubliftid in Holland, by Mr. NI- 
CHOLAS WI TSEN, being an Extraft 
a Letter from the Author thereof , to the 
Honourable Sir Robert Southwell fQ e - 
and Prefident of the Royal Society. 
The Honourable NICHOLAS WITSEN/afe Amhajfadour 
in/to England, and now one of the Principal Burgomafiers 
of Arafterdam, having fent fever al of his Nsw Maps of 
Tartary to the Fellows of the Royal Society jhe Honourable 
their Prefident, was pleafed to write unto him as followeth* 
S 1R, 
I Have lately had a great Effeft of your Bounty in the 
Maps of Tartary. This is Columbus like, the Difco- * 
very of a New Worlds at lealt Tydings of thofe Parts, 
which from the beginning have layn in the Dark. But 
the Enterprife being fo vaft, and the fuccefs fo unex- 
pected} the Publick are very impatient to be told by 
what Magick you have been able to mafter this Work. 
For it looks in one Part no lefs difficult ihen a Geogra- 
phical Defcription of the Bottom of the Sea $ I mean 
as tothofe impenetrable Deferts, the endlefs Boggsand 
Marfhes, the inacceflible Mountains and thofe mighty 
Tradb, which by their Climate are rendred uninhabita- 
ble; fince all thefe feem by Nature to have been con- 
demned to an everlafting Solitude. Now 
