2oB CHAPTER 1 6. 
all his expellees defrayed, to accompany three 
young gentlemen abroad. But he declined 
it, althou9:h he much widied to have taken 
a review of the alpine plants. Indifpofi- 
tion had fome fhare in this refufal, and we 
find that in the next fpring, 1671, he fuf- 
fered much from a jaundice. He was fo 
far recovered, however, before yiify^ as to be 
able to fet off on his fixth journey, in which 
he took with him Thomas Willis el, an 
unlettered man, but one, whofe love for 
plants, and his zeal and affiduity in colled:- 
ing them, merits commemoration. They 
travelled through Dej'-byjlnre, TorkJkirCy and 
all the northern counties, as far as to Ber- 
wick^ and back through the biflioprick of 
Durban?, 
In the fame year died, to the unfpeakable 
lofs and grief of Mr. Ray, his moft valua- 
ble friend i^ra^m Willughb Y, Efq; on 
'July 3d, in the 37th year of his age. The 
Jftrideft intim^acy had fubfifted between 
them, from the time of their being fellow 
collegians ; and it was cemented by a con- 
geniality of tafte, which not unfrequently 
forms a ftronger bond of union, than the 
ties^ 
