212 CHAPTER 1 6. 
where petrified fhells and figured foffils 
are found, both in England and elfewhere ; 
and on the various opinions of authors, re- 
lating to the origin of thefe bodies. He 
freely declares his fentiments, that they are 
the remains of once-organized bodies, in 
oppofition to thofe who imagined them to 
be the product of what they called a plajik 
power. He afterwards confirms his pofi- 
tioLo, by additional arguments recited in 
a letter to Dr. Robinson. See Letters^ 
p. 165. 
In the courfe of their journey, he every 
where notices thofe plants that are not na~ 
lives of England, and gives copious cata- 
logues of them. They fpent in the whole, 
fix months at Geneva, which gave Mr. 
Ray an opportunity of informing himfelf 
largely, rekting to the plants of Swifzer- 
landy particularly thofe of Mount Sa- 
leve, the Dole, and of Mount ^iira. He 
even difcovered fome that were unknown 
to the preceding botanifts, although thefe' 
were the regions of Gesner, and the 
Bauhines. 
The celebrated H^aller, even ranks 
him 
