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the principles of his method, than from hk 
want of opportunities of examination, ow- 
ing to his diftance from botanical gardens, 
as was alledged by his opponents ; a cir- 
cumftance, however, which he very feeling- 
ly laments in the preface to his " Methq- 
Dus," and elfevv^here. 
To this is annexed, Epistola de 
Methodo Plant arum wW clarifjimi D. 
A. Rivini ad Raitifn, cum ejvfdem refpon- 
foriay in qua D. yof, Pitt on T^ournefortii^ 
M. D, Klementa Botanica tangwitiirr 
On the method of Rivinus, Mr. Ray, 
as was before noticed, had throv/n out fome 
ftridtures in the preface to his Sylloge^'* 
which drew from that author the anfwer 
here pu!;>lifhed, and Mr. Ray^s reply ; in 
which our author takes occafion alfo to 
defend his method from the objections of 
TouRNEFORT, who had been unbecom- 
ingly fevere in fome animadverfions made 
in the Ele?nents of Botany^'' publifhed in 
1694. TouRNEFCRT, howcver, afterwards 
did ample juftice to the merits of our au- 
thor. 
The modern botanift fees that all thefe 
controverfies are become too little intereft- 
