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Mr. RAY's Travels.

VOL. I

THROUGH THE

LOW-COUNTRIES,

Germany, Italy and France,

With curious Obfervations,

A CATALOGUE of PLANTS,
Found fpontaneously growing in those Parts, and
their VIRTUES.

By the late Reverend and Learned
Mr. JOHN RAT, F. R. $.

To which is added,

An ACCOUNT of the TRAVELS of

FRANCIS WILLUGHBY, Efq;
Through great Part of SPAIN.

The SECOND EDITION.

Corrected and Improv'd, and adorn'd with COPPER-PLATES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed for 7.Walthoe, D. Midwinter, A. Bettefworth and C. Hitch,
W. Innys, R. Robinson, J. Wilford, A. Ward, J. and P. Knap-
ton, T. Longman, O. Payne, W. Shropshire, F. and R. Tonfon,
T. Woodman, R. Chandler, and J. Wellington.

MDCCXXXVIII.

2 DEC. 1943

OF OXFORD

LIBRA

THE

PREFACE.

Hen I had travelled over the greatest part of England in fearch of plants, and fufficiently informed myself what forts my own country natural'y produced; I grew defirous to fee what variety foreign countries of a different foil and temperature of air might afford. For which reafon I was easily induced to accompany Francis Willughby Efq. Philip Skippon Efq. and Nathanael Bacon Gent. in a voyage beyond the feas. The fuccefs whereof, as to the number of plants found, exceeding my expectation I thought it might not be amifs for the fatisfaction of the curious, and direction of those who may hereafter travel the fame places with the like defign, to publish a Catalogue of all not native of England that I had obferved. But confidering the paucity of those who delight in ftudies and enquiries of this nature, I have added a narrative of our whole voyage, with fome Obfervations Topographical, Moral, Natural, &c. made by myself and the forementioned gentlemen. I fhall fay nothing to recommend them, but only that what I write