322 Letters Ray, 
now I am wholly taken of¥^ from that 
Study, by the afflictive Pains I almoft 
conftantly labour under, by reafon 
of Ulcers upon my Legs, I having 
not been Half a Mile out of mv 
J 
Houfe thefe four Years; and though 
I have made Ufe of many Means, 
and have had the Advice of fome of 
the moft Ikilful Surgeons and Phyli- 
' cians, yet without Succefs, growing 
yearly worfe and worfe. Befides, I 
have been very much haunted with a 
troublefome Diarrhoea, frequently re- 
curring ; fo that you may well think 
I can have but little Heart to mind 
natural Hiftory : But yet I am fo far 
engaged, that I cannot fflake it offl 
I have now juft ready to go under 
the Prefs a third Volume of the Hi- 
, ftory of Plants, being a Supplement 
fo the two former Volumes, which 
hath _ engrofled almoft my whole 
Time, for two whole Years. Befides, 
I have 
