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in the year 1693 or 1694, as we learn from 
Mr. Ray's letters^ and from the teftlmony 
of his friend and neighbour, Mr. Dale. 
Yet, excellent as they were, fo fcanty was 
the tafte for natural hiftory at this period, 
that the manufcripts lay unpublifhed in the 
bookfellers hands, till they were purchafed 
by Mr. Innys, and prepared for the prefs 
by Dr. Derham, who added the figures, 
and inferted Mr. Buckley's Birds from 
Madrafsy and Mn Jago's Cornifh Fifhes. 
They were publifhed in 17 13, under the 
titles of " Synopsis methodica Avi- 
um/' 8*. pp. 198. t. 2i and Synop- 
sis methodica Piscium." 8^ pp. 162. 
t. I. 
In the fame year, 1693, Mr. Ray became 
the editor of a tranflation of Dr. Rau- 
wolf's Travels. This phyfician, who 
was the next after Belon, whom the love 
of natural hiftory alone, led to travel into 
the eaft, fpent the years 1573-4-5 in tra- 
verfing Syria^ Mefopotamia^ Falejline^ and 
Mgypt^ induced, as he tells us, by his defire 
to behold, in the native places, the plants 
of the Greek and Arabian phyficians. 
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