58 77 )ehiv^ of Mr. RAY. 
pleteft in their Kinds of any extant) 
loft a great deal of their Perfedtion, 
by the unfortunate Mifcarriage of 
Mr. Willughby\ and Mr. Ray\ Pa- 
pers in their Travels j who had very 
accurately defcribed all the Birdsy 
Fijhes^ &c. which they faw, as they 
pafled through High and Low Ger- 
many., efpecially thole in and upon 
the Danube and the Rhine ; but loft 
them in their Return from thence 
{16). 
Mr. Ray having now for fome 
Years betaken himfelf to a retired, 
ftudious, and fedentary Way of liv- 
ing, efpecially after his coming to 
Black-Notley, began to fuffer in his 
Health, being often vexed with a 
troublefome Diarrhaea, and, after Ibme 
(16) This Mr. laments in p. 180,181. of 
the before«mentioned Philofophical Letters. 
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