5^0 CHAPTER I^. 
pofal of Sir Richard Bulicley, in whicll 
he fays, that he had found the greateft 
yield of peafe to be twenty barrels reaped 
for one fown ; whereas, from one grain of 
Indian "wheat y he had calculated the pro-* 
duce would be upwards of 2000 grains for 
one. Thefe Obfervations were printed in 
the PhiL Tra?7.f, N" 205. Mr. Ray was 
not fanguine in his ezpefliations from the 
culture of that grain ; neither have fubfs- 
quent trials proved the utility of it in this 
climate. 
The botanical labours of this eminent 
man were now remitted, at leaft for fomc 
time 3 and we j&nd, that after the publica-* 
tion of his HiJIoryy' and the Synopjis,* 
his exertions were turned into another 
channel, in which he alfo flood unrivalled 
in his day. It was not botany alone that 
he raifed from a drooping ftate ; to zoo- 
logy, confidered as a fcience, he might be 
faid to have given birth, in thefe kingdoms ; 
fince, except what himfelf and Mr. Wil- 
LUGHBY had performed, nothing of im- 
portance on the hiftory of animals exifted. 
, Topsell's Abridgment of Gesner,'' 
Moffat's 
