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fpeiling the Frefh Water Polypes had pav- 
ed the way for the reception of Peysson- 
nel's truths ; and Mr. Watson himfelf, 
in company with M* Trembly, had an 
opportunity, on the coaft of StiJJeXy when 
on a vifit at the Duke of Richmond's, in 
one of thofe annual excurfions {p) which 
for many years he feldom failed to make in 
the fummer feafon, of verifying M. Peys- 
{p) It may gratify the curlofity of feme, who reverence 
the name of Mr. Ray, to be informed, that in one of 
thefe excurfions, Dr. Watson was led, by his refpeft to 
the memory of that great and good man, to vifit the fpot 
where he had lived at Black NotUy^ in EJJex. This was 
in the year 1760. To Dr, Watson this was claffical 
ground. I was informed by him, at that time, that he 
found Mr. Ray's monument removed out of the church, 
where it formerly flood, into the church -yard, and hardly 
vifible for brambles : thefe he had removed while he 
flayed. That he found the houfe in a ftate which indicated 
no alteration having taken place, except what more than 
half a century of time might be fuppofed necefTarily to 
have occafioned ; unlefs that indeed fome of the windows 
were flopped up to fave the tax ; and that the orchard 
bore all the appearance of being, as near as poflible, in the 
ftate in which it mufl have been in Mr. Ray's life-time. 
That the inhabitants of the village knew little of him ; 
and the people of the houfe had only heard that he was a 
great traveller. 
. sonnel's 
