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C K A F. 19. 
_^iccouj$ ^/Ray'i works continued — Wifdom of Qod 
manifefted in the Works of the Creation — 
Phyfico -theology -—Ray conftdered as a zoologift 
—'The jirft truly Jyftematic writer on animals — 
Synopfis Quadrupedum — Avium et Pifcium 
f^TuhliJhes Rauwolf's Travels^ with valuable 
additions — Stirpium Europsearum Sylloge — 
Controverfy with Riviniis — Provincial cata-^ 
legues of plants for Gibfon's Camden — Great 
improvement }o Englifh Botany given hy Ray— 
Evidenced hy the Jecond edition of the Synopfis 
— De variis Plantarum Methodis — Epiftola ac| 
|\ivinum — His Perfuafive to a Holy Life, 
TO this period Mr. Ray had appear^ 
ed to the public [)rincipally as a na- 
turalift ; but he now united to this charac- 
ter that of the theologift. It is needlefs to 
fay, that he fucceeded in this department, 
perhaps beyond mofl of thofe who had be- 
fore written on the fame fubjed. His firft 
publication of this kind, we are told, was 
originally;^ 
