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MEMOIR OF 
Somersetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, Dorset- 
shire, Wiltshire, and Hampshire in July follow- 
ing, noticing a multitude of objects, which may 
well be supposed to have interested men whose 
attention was not confined to one branch of 
Natural History, but who, knowing the relation 
to each other of all objects of knowledge, near or 
remote, extended their acquaintance to whatever 
presented itself, while, nevertheless, pursuing 
chiefly one particular design. 
Among other things, they noticed, on their way 
from Nantwich to West-Chester at Birkly, “ a 
pool on my Lord Cholmondeley’s ground, made 
by the falling in of the earth about, the year 
1657 ; and which,” adds Mr Ray, “ Mr Willughby 
has described.” This description is not, how- 
ever, to be found. 
This second excursion is still more replete with 
interest than the former ; both are written without 
distinguishing what each observed separately. 
They are the Diary, or, as Dr Derham has rightly 
named them, the “ Itineraries” of their observa- 
tions, as it should seem daily committed to 
writing by one of them in the name of both. 
Mr Willughby probably continued his journey 
alone for a short time ; for in the Philosophical 
Letters he writes to Mr Ray,* — “I met with 
several adventures in the remaining part of my 
journey after I left you. You may remember 
the day we parted I had intended to have gone 
Page 5. The letter is not dated. 
