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A58175	Observations topographical, moral, & physiological made in a journey through part of the low-countries, Germany, Italy, and France with a catalogue of plants not native of England, found spontaneously growing in those parts, and their virtues / by John Ray ... ; whereunto is added a brief account of Francis Willughby, Esq., his voyage through a great part of Spain.	Ray, John, 1627-1705.; Willughby, Francis, 1635-1672. Catalogus stirpium in exteris regionibus.	1673 (1673)	Wing R399; ESTC R5715	378,219	735

Communities he is obliged during his Office to reside in the City The lake of Zugh hath great variety of fish more then any other lake of Switzerland if the people there may be believed They named to us Eels Carps Perches Trouts Salmons which is very strange there being no way for them to get thither but up the Rhene and so they must have a course of above 500 miles and besides there being at Wasserfal a huge Catarract of the whole river which one would think it were impossible to pass Esch called by the Italians Temelo and in English Grayling Trisea or Trasine in English Eelpout Pikes of which we saw one taken that weighed 30 pound Weiss-fish or Alberlin called at Geneva Farra This fish is taken in the lake of Bala in Merionethshire in Wales and there called Guiniad from the whiteness of it and in Huls-water near Pereth in Cumberland and there called Schelley Hassler which I take to be the Charre of Winandermere in Westmerland and the Torgoch of Northwales Balla Nase called by Naturalists Nasus Breams Crevises and a great many sorts more to the number of at least 50. In many of the shadowy lanes we passed through about Stantz Zug and elsewhere we observed growing plentifully Aublatum Cordi or Dentaria aphyllos We travelled from Zug to Zurich which is 5 good hours riding But of that City we have already written From Zurich we rode to Mellingen a free Town not far from Baden 4 good leagues and then through a little walled Town belonging to the Bernese called Lensburgh and lodged at Arauw a considerable Town upon the river Aar subject also to the Bernese 4 short leagues We travelled a streight rode passing no considerable Town till we arrived at Soloturn 9 leagues distant from Arauw This though it be the head of a Canton is no large Town nor very considerable for its strength We diverted out of the common rode to Geneva to see Bern 6 hours distant from Soloturn This is a handsome City built all of stone though the houses be not tall It hath one fair long street with narrow portico's or Cloysters on each side It lies stretched out in length upon a hill which I may call a Peninsula it is so almost begirt about with the river On that side where it is not compassed with the river it is strongly fortified with good bastions and outworks The Founder of this City as also of Friburg in Switzerland and Friburg in Brisgoia was Berchtoldus Duke of Zerin as appears by the inscription upon their moneys To him they have erected a monument in the great Church This Church is one of the handsomest stone-fabrics in all Switzerland The territory of this City is more then on third part of the Countrey of the Suisses and is divided into 60 Praefecturae or Bailyages besides 4 which are common to them with Friburg For this reason there must needs be many rich men in the City though they have but little trade The Landtvogts or Bayliffs continue in office 6 years during which time they enrich themselves well yet do not their subjects complain but acknowledge themselves well used by their Governours Heer they keep 5 or 6 Bears in a pit These Bears I observed to climb the firr-trees growing in the pit and delighting to sit on the tops of them like birds on a perch The Arms of the Town is also a Bear which they took I suppose alluding to their name Bern And they first coyned the mony called Batzes from the figure of a bear stamped upon it which afterward all the Cantons imitated calling it also by the same name From Bern we rode to Friburg a handsome Town and the head of a Canton built upon a hill almost begirt with a river after the manner of Bern and by the same Founder on all sides environed with hills save where it is continuous to the land Their territory is surrounded with and enclosed in the territory of Bern. From Friburg we travelled through Maulton to Lausanna a great Town and an University and from Lausanna April 19. through Morges a large Town Rolle and Nion considerable Towns by the lake of Geneva's side and Verfoy a little Town on the lake near Geneva belonging to the French and came to our lodging at Geneva where we rested and sojourned near 3 months The Governments of Soloturn Bern and Friburg are much like that of Lucern In Soloturn the number of the lesser Council is 35 and of the greater 115. When one of the 35 dies the 34 remaining chuse one into his place out of the 115. When one of the 115 dies or is advanced the rest chuse one into his place out of the number of the Citizens In Bern the greater Council consists of 200 and the lesser as we were told there of 42 though Simler makes them but 26. These Councils are chosen by 20 Electors and the Sculthess viz. the four Signiferi of the City and 16 whom they pick out of the whole body of the Citizens and joyn with themselves In Friburg the lesser Council is of 24 and the greater of 200. When one of the lesser Council dies they chuse one into his place out of the greater and when one of the greater dies or is removed the lesser as I understood them chuse one into his place out of the number of the Citizens All these Cities have 2 Sculteti or Consuls who rule alternis annis He that desires a more full and particular account of the government of these Cities may consult Simler de Repub Helvetiorum Each of the Cantons have some Saint or other to be their Patron and protector whose image the popish Cantons set on the reverse of their monies v. g. S. Oswald a King of England Protector of Zug In their Church they have his reliques and have set up his image on horseback The Protestant Cantons are Zurich Bern Basel Sehafhausse part of Glaris and part of Appenzel That which most frequently breeds differences a quarrels among the Suitzers is the business of the common vogties or Bailywicks For most of these I mean the Dutch ones being of the reformed religion are oppressed and injured by the Popish Lantvogts the Protestant Cantons not knowing how either to help and relieve them or retaliate For the Popish Cantons being more in number than the Protestants they send Lantvogts to these places twice to the Protestants once This one of the Ministers of Zurich told me wad fundi sui calamitas and occasioned the two late breaches among them The Switzers on each side are very stiff in their Religion the Papists not permitting or tolerating one Protestant nor the Protestants one Papist in their proper territories Though the Cantons adhering to the Church of Rome are more in number yet the reformed are much the greater besides that their land is better very like to ours in England The Romanists are accounted the better Souldiers and

the greatest part of the Citizens are Lutherans who have five Churches The Roman Catbolics are allowed the free Exercise of their Religion and have within the City two Cloisters of Men and one of Women The Reformed had formerly a Church within the Walls afterwards that being taken from them they had one just without which being burnt down whether by Accident or Malice their Church is now a good distance from the Town The English Church used in Q. Maries days goes to decay The English House is made a Granary or Store-house The Countrey hereabout is pleasant and the Ground rich We found growing wild Gramen amoris dictum Ischaemon vulgare Portulaca sylvestris and in some Hedges Alsine baccifera which it was not my fortune in all this Voyage to meet with any where else July 17. we left Frankfurt taking the Post-Coach for Frankenthal After one half-hours riding we entred into Pine-Woods the first we met withal They reach'd almost to our Lodging this night which was at a Village called Geirsheim three German miles from Frankfurt July 18. at a little walled Town called Kernsheim we ferried over the Rhene and at six miles end came to Worms a great old City but meanly built and in a decaying condition It seems formerly to have been richer and more populous The Bishop is chosen by the Canons of the great Church being 20 in number All the Magistrates are Lutherans After we had passed Worms one hours riding brought us to Frankenthal or as we usually pronounce it Frankendale a Town belonging to the Prince Elector Palatine situate in a Level by the Rhene more considerable for its Strength than Greatness The Houses are low built the Streets broad and streight The Wall Mounts and Out-works neatly kept in good repair The Garrison consists of five Companies whereof two are Citizens There are in it three Churches one Almagne one Low-Dutch and one French July 20. we travelled from Frankendale beside the Rhene through Oberskeim a small walled Town to Spier two miles and an half distant Spier though it hath a Bishop yet is it a free City of the Empire and governed by its own Magistrates of considerable Strength and Greatness The Houses are most old-built of Timber rather vast than handsom or convenient We could not learn that there was any considerable Trade driven here so that were it not for the Imperial Chamber which draws much Company hither we believe it would soon grow poor and infrequent enough The Romish Religion prevails most yet have the Lutherans their Church In the Cathedral Church are the Monuments of several Emperors and Bishops who lie interred there The Imperial Chamber consists of 36 Assessors and a chief President appointed by the Emperor besides whom there are other three Presidents chosen by the Emperor out of the Delegates Every Elector of the Empire and each of the ten Circles send two Delegates or Assessors There is another Chamber of like power at Vienna These Courts determine all Controversies arising between the several Princes and States of the Empire by majority of Vote The Subjects also of many of the Princes may appeal from their own Princes to this Court but it is not prudent nor safe for them so to do unless they first withdraw themselves out of their Territory Some Princes as the Count Palatine have Jus non appellandi July 21. we returned a little backwards and crossed over the Rh●ne to Manheim a Town belonging to the Prince Elector Palatine situate just in the Angle made by the Neccar and Rhene meeting and strongly fortified The Houses in the late Wars were most of them beaten down but now they are rebuilding them apace the Prince having given the Town great Privileges to invite Strangers to come and inhabit there At the time of our being there his Highness was building a new Citadel which was like to prove a strong Piece It wanted not much then of being finished Who it was that first advanced this place to the dignity of a City and fortified it with Walls Ditches and Bulwarks this Inscription over the Gate towards the Neccar will acquaint the Reader Quod felix faxit Jehova Fredericus IIII. Elector Palatinus Rheni Dux Bavariae E veteri Paga Manhemio Ad Rheni Ni●rique confluvium Justa spatiorum dimensione Nobilem Vrbem molitus Vallo fossa muro clausit Portam bonis civibus aperuit Anno Domini MDCX. July 22. From Manheim we rode to Heidelberg just before we entred the Town passing a wooden Bridge over the Neccar covered over with a tectum as are also many of the great Bridges in Switzerland to preserve the Timber as I conceive from the injuri●s of the Weather Heidelberg though none of the greatest Cities yet is the chief of the Palatinate and for its bigness populous which is much considering the Devastations made by the late Wars in this Countrey The Houses are most of Timber yet handsom and in good repair which argues the Inhabitants to be industrious and in a thriving condition It is situate on the right bank of the River Neccar under Hills of considerable highth by reason of which it cannot be made strong though it be encompassed with a double Wall and Trench In this City are five Jurisdictions 1. Aulica under which are all the Princes or Noblemen of this Jurisdiction the Marshal of the House is President 2. Cancellaria under which are all the Councils and other Officers as Advocates Doctors of Law c. 3. Bellica or the Soldiery the General is their President 4. Academica in which the Rector magnificus presides and 5. Civica The Members of each Jurisdiction may refuse to be judged by any but their own Judge before whom the Plaintiff must implead them according to the Maxim in Law Actor sequitur forum rei The City is divided into four Quarters and governed by Praetor and Burgomasters It can raise two Companies of Foot and one of Horse The Lutherans are permitted the Exercise of their Religion here and have lately built them a Church There are also Roman Catholics who have a Church without the Walls About the middle of the ascent of the Hill called Koningsthall stands the Castle where the Prince keeps his Court a stately Pile and of great capacity encompassed with a strong Wall and a deep Trench hewn out of the Rock which upon occasion may be filled with Water Over the Gate leading into the Palace is a Dutch Inscription signifying the building of it by Ludovicus V. in the year 1519. It is not all of one Piece but since the first Foundation several Buildings have been added by several Princes One part is called the English Building Under one of the Towers stood the great Tun which almost filled a Room It held 132 Fudders a Fudder as we were informed being equal to 4 English Hogsheads The old Tun is taken in pieces and there is a new one in building by the Princes Order which is

of Brick though the Houses be but low having streight Streets and a square Piazza It is well fortified with a strong Wall and Trench but most considerable for its Citadel which for Greatness Strength and Beauty gives place to few that we have seen Within it is a stately Palace of the Princes who for the Defence and Security of this City maintains here a Garrison of 1000 Soldiers About ten or twelve years since this Place was possessed by the Spaniards When the Peace was concluded between them and the Hollanders it was agreed that the Duke of Newbergh should have Gulick and Berg and the Marquess of Brandenburgh Mark and Cleve The main Trade and Employment of this Town is making of Malt. June 30. we proceeded on to Collen some seven hours distant from Gulick by the way passing through a little walled Place called Berchem A great part of this days Journey was through pleasant Woods We observed by the way-side and in the Woods and Hedges as we went Mezereon Germanicum Mollugo montana latifolia ramosa Pulmonaria maculosa Galeopsis sive Vrtica iners flore purpurascente majore folio non maculato and among the Corn Vaccaria Ger. Collen though it gives Title to an Archbishop who is one of the Electors is a free City of the Empire and one of the greatest in Germany The middle part of it is well built of Stone wherein are two fair and large Piazza's the Skirts meaner and of Wood. The Walls of the City are of Stone very tall but not proportionably thick and covered with a Tectum Round the Walls without is a pleasant Walk of Trees two deep Trenches and at convenient Intervals strong Bulwarks Within the Wall are enclosed 300 Acres of void ground not built upon I mean planted with Vines of the Grapes whereof we were told many hundred Tuns of Wine are yearly made In the Domo or Church of S. Peter are preserved in a golden Chest the Bodies as they would have us believe of the three Wise men of the East that came to worship our Saviour commonly called the three Kings of Collen Melchior Gaspar and Balthasar To this Church belong 54 Canons Nobles and 8 Canons Presbyters By these 62 with the Dean of the Cathedral who hath two Votes in the Election and the two Consuls regent of the City who have four is the Archbishop chosen who is not allowed to continue in the City at any time for above three days together The Government of the City is by six Consuls or Burgomasters who continue in Office during life yet but two only in power yearly seven Scabins and 150 Senators When a Burgomaster dies the Senate chuses another into his Place The Senators are chosen by the several Companies of the City and continue during life only fifty are in power yearly so the Power revolves to the same every third year The Scabins are put in by the Prince and continue during life The main body of the Citizens is of the Roman Religion yet are there a good number both of Lutherans and Reformed or Calvinists The Lutherans are allowed a Church within the Walls the Reformed are forced to go cross the Water a mile out of town to Church In one of the Churches of this Town are preserved the Bones of those 11000 Virgins which accompanied S. Vrsula to Rome and in their return here suffered Martyrdom From Collen we went up the Rhene in a Boat drawn by Men which brought us the first day to a small Village called Vidich By the way we found growing among the Corn in great plenty Delphinium suaplici flore purpuro-caeruleo vulgare and Nigella ●rvensis in some barren Grounds near the River ' Stoechas citrina Germanica latiore folio J. B. Next morning we passed Bonna a pretty walled Town with a handsom Piazza Here the Elector of Collen hath his Palace and usual Residence This night we lodged at a pitiful poor walled Town called Brisaca where we first began to have Feather-Beds laid upon us instead of Blankets and Coverlets July 6. we passed by Rineck Castle on our right hand and about a mile from Brisaca came to Andernach a walled Town of some note subject to the Archbishop of Collen Over against this Town is Hammerstein Castle belonging to the Archbishop of Triers Then we passed by two Castles of the Earl of Weets one on the right hand on a high Rock well built with a Cloister in it Two leagues from Andernach we passed by Engers and this night lodged at Coblentz a considerable City belonging to the Archbishop of Triers called in Latin Confluentes because situate at the Confluence of the Rivers Moselle and Rhene Here is a fair Stone-Bridge of 13 Arches over the Moselle which notwithstanding its diminutive Name is no small River Here is also a Bridge of Boats over the Rhene to a strong Castle called Hermanstein situate on a high Rock under which near the River is a beautiful Palace of the Archbishop of Triers whose Name is Carolus Caspar Not far hence is Helfenstein Castle near which springs an acid Water Another Well of this nature there is at Antonistein three or four hours distant from Andernach belonging to a Cloister of Carmelites who sell the Water sealed up in Bottles A third of greatest note at Zwolbach four miles off Frankfurt All these Waters are sold to the Towns and Countrey about and commonly drunk mixt with Wine to which they give a pleasant tast and purging quality I cannot say as Blondel affirms of them that upon mixture with Wine I saw them smoke or found them actually hot Indeed I was not careful to observe these particulars July 7. we passed by Lodesheim Town and Castle on the left hand and Capelle a Castle of the Bishop of Triers on the right then a large Island in the middle of the Rhene next Rens a small walled place belonging to the Archbishop of Collen on the right hand and a little further Browbach and a Castle above it About four hours from Coblentz Boppaert a walled Town of some note on the right hand and not far thence a Castle called Bornholm on the left We rested this night at a Village called Hertznach July 8. in the morning we came to a pretty pleasant wall'd Town called S. Gower a mile distant from Hertznach under the Lantgrave of Hessen who lives in a fair Castle built on a Rock above the Town On one of the Towers of the Wall by the Rivers side is fastned a brass Ring given by the Emperor Charles V. which is put upon Strangers Necks and then they are obliged to drink Wine else they are sprinkled with Water The Magistrates and greatest part of the Inhabitants of this Town are of the Reformed Religion yet have both Lutherans and Papists their Churches Just without the Walls over against S. Gower is a Town and Castle called Wellnich Somewhat further on the right hand is Wesel Town and Castle of

only seized the Revenues of the Church into his own hand but also assumed to himself entirely the Episcopal Power and Jurisdiction He also is universal Patron and disposes of all vacant Benefices as he pleases indeed the Council of four nominate and present two unto him of which usually he chuses one because it may well be presumed that he knows not so well as they what persons are best qualified and fit to be preferred but he is not obliged to confer the Benefice upon either of the persons by them so nominated but may either put in another known to himself or command them to nominate others if he like not those presented The Religion of the Countrey is the Reformed The whole Palatinate is divided into three Praefècturae and some viz. the greater of these subdivided into less Every Praefectura hath its Inspector or Bishop who is Pastor of some Church in that Praefectura He differs not from any other in any Jurisdiction but in that commonly he hath a larger Stipend His business is only to give Information if he be of a lesser Division to the Inspector of the whole Praefectura under which he is if of a greater to the Council of foar If need be every Praefectura or great Town hath a Presbytery The Presbytery of Heidelberg consists of the five Ministers of the City two Deputies from each Jurisdiction except the Aulica and two from each Quarter of the City so that at this time the number in all is 21. These all have equal Suffrages the Lay-men with the Ministers only one of the Ministers always presides in his Course This Presbytery assembles once every week at whose meeting is always present a Delegate from the Prince to see that nothing be agitated there which it concerns not the Presbytery to meddle withal This Presbytery hath no power to excommunicate or inflict any Church Censure but if any person be accused to them of any Crime they send him to the Jurisdiction to whom he appertains to enquire into his Offence The Court having received this Information from the Presbytery either neglect it if they please or if they see cause enquire into it and punish the Delinquent according to his Demerit and in the close of the Sentence or Warrant for execution add this Clause Quod ad Scandalum Ecclesiae datum remittimus te ad Presbyterium Now at last all they can do is to exact of him a public Confession before the Church and a promise of Amendment for the future As for Ordination it is given by the Council of four by Imposition of Hands after examination of the person to be ordained and Testimonials exhibited from the University or other Persons of known Credit The Prince receives all Tithes except such as in some places for conveniencies sake are paid immediately to the Ministers and other Church-Revenues most whereof is paid out again in Stipends to the Ministers which the Prince proportions accordieg to their Merit and his own Discretion the rest is reserved for Emergencies July 25. we hired a Coach for Strasburgh which brought us thither in three days At three miles distance from Heidelberg we passed in sight of Philipsburg a well fortified place situate in a level near the Rhene now possessed by the French The Castle or Palace yielded a goodly Prospect A mile further we passed through Graffe a small Town with a Castle belonging to the Markgrave of Tourlach where our Coachman paid Toll We lodged this first night at a Village called Linknom under the same Lord who is a Lutheran July 26. at four miles end we baited at a large Village called Raspach and two miles on further we passed through Stolchoven a little walled Town where our Coachman paid another Toll and after one mile more another walled Town called Lichtenaw both under the Marquess of Baden This second night we took up our quarters at Sertz a Village under the Earl of Ha●aw July 27. we passed over the Rhene divided into two Branches or Streams by two great Wooden-Bridges which instead of Boards are floored with whole Fir-Trees laid loose across neither pinned nor nailed down I conceive that the Bridge might upon any exigent be more suddenly thrown down and broken Soon after we were past the Bridges we entred Strasburgh In this Journey we observed great plenty of Maiz or Indian Wheat planted in some places Lathyrus sativus and in others Carthamus or bastard Saffron sown in the fields Growing wild besides what we had before observed in other places Blattaria Solidago Saracenica and in the Meadows near Strasburgh Carduus Pratensis Tragi Strasburgh is a free City of the Empire large well built rich and populous encompassed with a double Wall and Trench full of Water besides the advantage of a good situation in a large Level very exactly fortified and the Walls and Works most regular elegant and scrupulously kept in repair so that it seems no easie thing by force to take this City neither was it I think once attempted in the late German Wars It lies as a Block in the Frenchmens way and is as it were the Rampart of the Empire in these parts The Government is by a greater Council of 300 chosen by the several Companies of Citizens and a lesser of 71 of which number six are Burgomasters six Stetmasters 15 Patres Patriae and 13 of the Militia The Women of this City are well-favoured and of good Complexions The Inhabitants are most part Lutherans who have seven Churches some Papists who have one Church and four Cloisters two for Men and two for Women and a few Reformed who yet are not allowed a Church in Town but forced to go some two miles to Church in the Territory of the Earl of Hanaw This City is an Episcopal See the Bishop whereof is Lord of the lower Alsatia He hath a Palace in the City but is not suffered to lodge therein above three days together in an Inn he is allowed eight days at a time Here is the fairest largest best furnished and handsomeliest kept Armory or Arsenal that we saw in Germany or in all these respects any where else Here are also public Granaries Wine-Cellars and Store-houses The River Elle runs through the Town The Domo or Cathedral Church is a fair Building of Stone having a great pair of Brass Folding-Doors at the West end Herein we viewed the famous Clock described by Coryat and others a Piece of excellent Workmanship made as were told by one Isaac Habrechtus of Strasburgh The Steeple of this Church is curiously built of carved Stone and incomparably the highest that ever we yet saw The number of Steps from the bottom to the top is 662. We ascended 640 Steps to the place called the Crown from whence we had a wide Prospect of the Countrey round about In this Steeple two men watch constantly by day and four by night Ten hours distant from Strasburgh towards Stutgard is Sowrebourn

good reason they have being more exercised in War serving the Spanish and French Kings as being of the same Religion Besides the Zurichers who anciently had the reputation for valour are now much given to merchandise and to accumulate riches and so taken off from martial studies and exercises The Bernese though they have far the greatest and best territory of all so that it 's said they can arm as many men as the Dutchy of Milan send into the field 100000 Souldiers and yet leave enough at home to till the land yet have they no reputation for Souldiers they lost their credit quite in the late skirmish with the Lucernese who account them rather Savoyards than Switzers All the Cantons of Switzerland coyn money except Appenzel Vnderwald and Glaris of which Glaris formerly hath coined though now it doth not All the Swizzers in general are very honest people king and civil to strangers One may travel their Countrey securely with a bag of gold in his hand When we came to out Inns they would be troubled if we distrusted them so far às to take our Portmanteau's into our lodging-chambers and not leave them in the common dining rooms They keep their houses very clean and polite like our good housewives in England For plants going from Zurich to Mellingen we observed common Gooseberry in the hedges and by the way-sides very plentifully and in some places Barberries Sigillum Solomonis and Herba Paris are the most common plants that grow in this Countrey in the woods and hedges every where Anonymus flore Coluteae on the mountains near Zurich From Arauw to Soloturn Helleboraster maximus out he hills sides as also Christophoriana not to mention Fumaria Bulbosa every where growing in the shady lanes Geneva is pleasantly seated at the lower end of the Lacus Lemanus now called Genffer-zee or the lake of Geneva upon a hill side respecting the lake so that from the lake you have a fair prospect of the whole Town It is divided by the river Rhodanus or Rhosne into two parts which are joyned together by two wooden bridges one of which hath on each side a row of houses after the manner of London-bridge only they are low The two principal and indeed only considerable streets in the Town are the low street Rüe bas which runs along by the river and lakes side and the high street or great street Rüe grand which runs up the hill The City is indifferently strong and they have lately been at great expences to fortific it alla moderna with ramparts and bastions of earth Though it be but small yet is it very populous being supposed to contain 30000 souls St. Peter's Church formerly the Cathedral is handsome and well-built and in it is a stately monument for the Duke of Rohan The Citizens are very busie and industrious subsisting chiefly by trading the whole territory of this Republic being not so great as some one Noblemans estate in England for extent of land All provisions of victuals are very plentiful and cheap at Geneva especially milk-meats the neighbouring mountains feeding abundance of cattel The tops of Jura Saleve and other high mountains of Savoy Daulphiny and the Alps where they are bare of wood put forth very good grass so soon as the snow is melted off them which usually is about or before mid-May And then the Countrey people drive up their cattel to pasture and feed them there for three months time Upon these hill tops they have heer and there low sheds or dairy houses which serve the men to live in and to make their butter and cheese in so long as they keep their beasts above The men I say for they only ascend up thither and do all the dairy work leaving their wives to keep house below it being too toilsome for them to clamber up such high and steep hills By reason of these cotes it is very convenient simpling upon the mountains for if a man be hungry or thirsty he may soon find relief at one of them We always found the people very kind and willing to give us such as they had viz. brown bread milk whey butter curds c. for which we could sca●ce fasten any mony uon them For the temper of the air in respect of heat and cold Geneva I think is very like England there being no great excess of either extreme The City is well governed vice discountenanced and the people either really better or at least more restrained then in other places Though they do take liberty to shoot and use other sports and exercises upon the Lords day yet most of their Ministers disallow it and preach against it Our long stay heer at Geneva and that in the proper season for simpling gave us leisure to search for and advantage of finding many species of plants in the neighbouring fields and mountains of which I shall heer present the Reader with a catalogue Such as are native of England are in the Roman letter In Colle la Bastie dicto Sylvis clivosis ad Rhodani ripas Colutea scorpioides Melissophyllon Fuchsio flore albo atque etiam vario Lilium flore nutante ferrugineo majus J. B. Monophyllon Ger. Orobus Pannonicus 1 Clus Hepaticum trifolium Lob. Frangula Chamaedrys falsa maxima c. J. B. Bellis sylvatica J. B. Trifolium purpureum majus folio spica longiore J. B. Orobus sylvaticus viciae foliis C. B. Tithymalus cyparissias J. B. Tithymalus non acris flore rubro J. B. Horminum luteum sive Colus Jovis Aquilegia vulgaris In monte Saleve dicto unâ circiter leucâ à Geneva distante Cotoneaster Gesneri J. B. Diospyros J. B. Bellis caerulea Monspeliaca Ger. Scabiosa 10 sive repens Clus Alsine muscosa quibusdam J. B. Ad rivulos propè Saleve Ageratum purpureum Dalechampii J. B. ad radices montis Sanieula Alpina guttata In summitate propè fontes Pes cati flo albo suaverubente ibid copiosissime Gentiana major Ger In pascuis propè summitatem montis abunde Gentianula quae Hippion J. B. ibid. Caalia quibusdam J. B. in sylvosis suprema montis parte Polygonatum angustifolium ibid. polygonatum floribus ex singularibus pediculis J. B. In rupibus saxosis ad latera montis Draba alba siliquosa repens juxta fontes propè montis summitatem Hesperis sylvestris latifolia flore albo parvo Park Ribes Alpinus dulcis J. B. In sylvosis summo montis cacumine Anagyris sive Laburnum In sylvosis ad latera montis Ferrum equinum Gallicum siliquis in summitate C. B. Periclymenum rectum fructu rubro Ger. Doronicum vulgare J. B. Dentaria heptaphyllos C. B. In sylvosis ad latera montis Barba capri J. B. ibid. Lilium convallium ibid. Christophoriana ibid. Lilium floribus reflexis montanum C. B. Aria Theqpharsti Melissophyllum Fuchsii Polygonatum vulgare Polemonium petraeum Gesn Colutea scorpioides Thlaspi oleraceum Tab. Fraxinus bubula Alchimilla vulgaris in