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pointed objects of tiicir purfuit, they toolc 
notes on the mines, and fmeiting, and on 
the method of making llilt : and Mr. Ray 
did not omit to make, as he had done be- 
fore, ample additions for his colled:ions of 
proverbs and of local Englipo words. 
On Nov. 7, of this year, he v/as chofen 
fellow of the Royal Society, and Was pre- 
vailed on by Bhhop Wilkins to tranflate 
his Real CharacSter " mio Latin. This 
he performied, though it was never pub- 
lilhed ; and the manufcript is extant in the 
library of the Royal Society. The latter 
end of the year, and the beginning of 1668, 
he fpent with gentlemen who had all been 
his pupils at Trinity • Mr. Burrel, and Mr. 
CouRTKOPE, at Danny'y in SuJJex Sir Ro-^ 
bert Barn HAM, at BoBoiiy in Kent-y and 
with Mr. WiLLUGHBY, in JVarwickJhire. 
In the autumn of this year, he took his 
fifth journey, alone, into TorkftAre and JVeji- 
morlandy returning in September to Middle^ 
ton Hall 3 and fpent . the winter with Mr. 
WiLL-UGHBY, then lately married. 
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