Wheler. 35^ 
travelling botanlit See the Planted Can- 
tabrigienfesj' Lond, 1763 ; from p. 44-— 
WHELER. 
As I do not ftriftly confine myfelf to 
fuch writers, as have diftinguifhed them- 
felves by their difcoveries in the indigenous 
botany of Britahzy alone, I cannot therefore 
omit to mention fo eminent a man as Sir 
George Wheler. He was the fon of 
Col. Whelerv oi Charing^ m Kent y and 
was born in 1650, at Breda^ his parents 
being there in exile with the royal family. 
At the age of feventeen, he became a corn- 
moner of Lincoln College, Oxford ; and, be- 
fore he took any degree, went on his tra- 
vels. He fpent near two years in France 
and Italy 'y and, in 1675, travelled into 
Greece and AJia Minor *y from whence he 
returned in November 1676. He was 
knighted before he took his mafter of arts 
degree, which was conferred upon him in 
3683, in confideration of his learning, and 
in return for a prefent of antiquities col- 
ledted in his travels. He afterwards took 
fome 
