Bay. 
which part Ray had paid but fmall regard, 
the fources of controverfy were endlefs; 
fince the fundamental principles of each 
were totally irreconcileable. 
About this time Mr. Ray communica- 
ted " The Provincial Catalogues of Plants," 
printed at the end of each county, in the 
edition of" Cambden's Britannia^'' pub-^ 
iifhed in 1695 by Mr. Gibson, His re- 
peated travels throughout moft parts of 
England^ for the fole purpofe of inveftigat- 
ing the fubjefts of nature, had enabled 
him to accomplifh more than had been 
done by any man before his time ; and his 
unqueftionable fkill and accuracy, added an 
authenticity to thefe lifts, which could 
not eafily have been derived from any other 
hand. 
To the county of Cornwall Mr. Ray 
added many other particulars 3 which, how- 
ever, were not printed, probably becaufc 
the correfponding circumftances could not 
be procured from other counties. Thele 
were, *^ Catalogues of the Sea Fifh, and Sea 
Fowl, with the fynonyms fome account 
of two or three forts of ftone dug there % 
of fea fand, as manure i an account of the 
hurkrs^ 
