Chap. III. 
Mr. R A y’j travels, 
SECTION V. 
T R A V E L s through the Low-Countries^ and Germany towards 
Italy, interfperfed with curious Obfervations, Natural, Topo- 
graphical, Moral, Phifiological, Philolc^ical, 
By the late Reverend and Learned Mr, John Ray, F. R.S. 
I. An introduBory Account of the Author and of his Performance, in order to few the Piifference 
between it and other BOoks of Travels. 2. A Defcription of Calais, Dunkirk, Gravelin, Newport, 
and other Places in the Spanifh Flanders. 3. An Account of Bruges, Ghent, BrufTels, Louvain, 
and Antwerp, wfh occafional Remarks on whatever is fingular or worthy Notice in any of thofe 
Cities. 4. Phe fame Obfervations continued, with a copious Defcription of the Nature of Foreio-n 
TJniverfties, 5. A Defcription of Fort Lillo, the City of Middleburgh, Flulhing, Ter-Veer, Ber- 
gen-op-Zoom, Breda, Dort, and Rotterdam. 6. Phe Defcription of Delft, with the Monumental 
Eulogies of William I. Prince of Orange, and ‘Admiral Van Tromp. 7. A Defcription ^Ley- 
den, with an Account of the Univerfity, and of the Grove of Sevenhuys, and the Method of making 
Purjs. 8. Phe great City of Amfterdam defcribed, with a very exaB Account of its Government. 
9. Phe Author's Journey from thence to Utrecht, with an Account of the remarkable Places in its 
Neighbourhood. 10. Bois-le-Duc, Haumont, Maeftricht, and other Places, defcribed. n. Phe 
Manners, Cufioms,. and peculiar Difpoftion of the Dutch Nation, together with the curious Obferva- 
tions made upon that SuhjeB by Mr. Barnham, Secretary to the Lord Hollis. 12. A large Ideferip- 
tionoflAt^t, with the Monumental Infcription of iS/r John Mandeville. 13. An Account c/' Spa^ 
Limbourg, and Aix la Chapelle, including the Antiquities and Form of Government of the laji men- 
tioned City. 14. An ExtraB from Dr. Francis Blondel’i Obfervations upon thofe Baths, efteemed the 
beft Account ever publijhed of them.. 15. A Defcription of ]u\iqvs, and oJ the City of Cologne, and 
an Account of the Government of that Place. 16. Andernach, Coblentz, and many other Places de- 
fcribed, with a particular Account of the Country, ij. A Defcription of Mentz, Francfort, Worms 
Frankendahl. 18. An Account Spire, Manheim, arid Heidelberg, including the Defcrip- 
tion ^ Palatinate. 19. Philipsbourg, Strasbourg, Brifac, and the Country adjacent, defcribed. 
20. Phe City and Univerfity of'Qdezil defcribed, with various Critical and Hiforical Obfervations 
thereon, and on the Places adjacent. 21. Zurich, SchafthaulTen, Conftance, and the Country about 
them, defcribed very exaBly. 22. An Account of Lindaw, and other Powns in Bavaria. 2-^. A 
Defcription of Munich, Augsbourg, and Donawert. 24. Phe Country of Anfpach, and the City of 
Nuremberg, defcribed. 2^. A Defcription oJ Regensberg or Ratisbon, Straubingen, and PalTau. 
26. A large Account of the Country of Auftria, with a particular Defcription of the Capital City 
^Vienna. 27. An Account of the Author's Journey from theme to the Frontiers of Italy. 
i.*^T is impoffible to have a juft Notion of the 
1 ture and Value of the following Travels, with- 
-M.. out having fome Account of the learned Perfon 
who wrote them, whofe Name will always do Honour 
to this Nation. His Father v/as a Blackfmith, at Black 
Notley in EJfex, where Mr. Ray was born and died. 
The firft of thefe Events happened the 29th of Novem- 
ber, 1628. He received his firft Education at the 
Grammar-School at Braintree, and from thence was 
removed to Cambridge, where he diftinguifhed himfelf 
by his indefatigable Diligence in his Studies, and his 
particular Turn to Botany, which was the principal 
Caufe of all his Travels. In 1658, he made the Tour 
of Wales and the Weft of England ; in 1661, he vifited 
the North, and examined the beft Part of Scotland ; in 
1662, he made anotlier Journey to Chejier, and from 
thence through Wales, into Cornvoall, Bevonfhire, Dor- 
fetlhire, Hampfhire, Wiltjhire, and returned to London 
through Berkjhire, in 1663, he travelled with Mr. 
Willoughby, Mr. Skippon, and y[v. Bacon, through the 
Countries which will be mentioned in the following 
Pages and after his Return to England, he made ma- 
ny other Journies into different Parts for the Sake of 
Botanical Obfervations, of which he left behind him 
very large Accounts, that hitherto remain unpublifh- 
ed. In 1677, he returned into his native Country, 
and built a Houfe in the Parifh of Black Notley, 
where he paffed the Remainder of his Days. He wrote 
and publilhed a great Number of very learned and 
valuable Pieces, which are too well known for us to 
give any Account of them. He was juftly efteemed one 
of the honefteft and moft confciencious Men of the 
V o L. II. Numb. CXIII. 
Age in which he lived ; he fuffered in his Youth for 
not taking the Solemn League and Covenant, and loft 
his Living after the Reftoration, becaufe he would not 
take the Abjuration Oath then impofed in relation to 
that Solemn League and Covenant, which declared it not 
binding on thofe who did take it ; and thus he was 
generally efteemed a Nonconformijl, though always not 
only a Member, but a Deacon and Prieft of the Church 
of England, in which Communion he died, January 
1705*. His Travels are written in a very peculiar 
Stile, and in a very fingular Manner ; he is generally 
copious, and always exadl, but at the fame Time there 
is hardly any Thing to be met with in his Accounts 
that hath been recorded by others ; fo that though he 
defcribes the fame Places with many other Writers, 
yet the Reader will meet with very few or no Repeti- 
tions, which was the principal Reafon of our inferting 
his Travels in this Colledlion, which have been always, 
and ftill are very juftly admired, and generally efteem- 
ed. One Thing more it is neceffary to obferve, which 
is this, that we have omitted his Catalogues of Pro- 
feffors, the Times and Subjedls of their Ledures in 
the feveral Univerfities through which he pafled, as 
being long ago out of Date, and fo tending neither 
to the Entertainment, nor Inftruftion of the Reader • 
and we have likewife left out his Catalogues of Plants* 
becaufe foreign to our Purpofe, though they will al* 
ways add confiderably to the Value of the larger 
Colleftion publilhed under his Name, which bemo- 
grown fcarce, has been reprinted within thefe few 
Years. 
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