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any thing like it. The island will afford grassenough to keep thirty sheep. They make strangersthat come to visit it Burgesses of the Basse, hygiving them to drink of the water of the well, whichsprings near the top of the rock, and a flower out ofthe garden thereby. The island is nought else buta rock, and stands off the land near a mile; at Dun-bar you would not guess it above a mile distant,though it be thence at least five. We found grow-ing in the island, in great plenty, Beta marina,Lychnis marina nostras, Malva arborea marinanostras, et Cochlearia rotundifolia.”

In this sketch, short as it is, there are several in-accuracies, and yet it is on the whole more correctthan some later accounts of the same interestingislet.

On the restoration of Charles II. , when there wasa prospect of peaceable times, and the church of England was re-established, Mr Wray took orders,though he continued a fellow of Trinity College.But his views of preferment were blasted by hisresolution not to subscribe to the conditions impliedin the Act of Uniformity, by which divines were re-quired to declare that the oath entitled the SolemnLeague and Covenant was not binding on thosewho had sworn it. The reason of his refusal didnot, however, arise from his having himself takenthe oath, which he never did, having always believedit to be unlawful, but from his considering thosewho had taken it as still under an obligation toabide by it. In consequence of this opinion he deem-ed it proper to resign his fellowship in 1662 .

On leaving Cambridge he resolved to go to theContinent, with the view of extending his know-5