246 C IT A P T E R 19. 
His Travels " having been published 
in 1583, in the German language, had hi- 
therto been locked up from the EngJiJh 
reader. Sir Ha?is Sloan E having, how- 
ever, read them, was induced, in concert 
with Capt. Hat TON, to procure a tranfla-* 
tion of them, which was done by Nicholas 
Staph ORST. This verlion was put into 
Mr. Ray*s hands, to revife and corredtt 
He did more ; he made a choice feledlion 
from other authors, who had made the 
fame tour, Belon, Alpinus, Sir George 
Wheler, &c. and he drew up a Cata- 
logue of the more rare Plants of thofe 
countries through which Rauwolf tra- 
velled ; and added lifts of thofe of /Egypt 
and Crete. From this circumftance, the 
book has gone by the name of ''Ray's 
Collection of Travels and it 
was reprinted v/ith his own '* Obferva- 
*' tions," in 173B. Rauwolf made an 
Herbarium^'' while in the eaft ; which, 
with his European plants, conilituted four 
large volumes. Thefe became the property 
of Queen Ckrijlina^ and afterwards, by her 
5?neans probably, IJaac Vossius^ who in- 
formed 
