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80 BRITISH PHYSICIANS. Besides the tracts already enumerated, he left behind him one, of " Artificial Hills, Mounts, and Burrows in England ;" another, " of the Answers of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos ;" also, " A Prophecy concerning the Future State of several Nations;" and " Museum Clausum," in which the author amuses himself with imagining the existence of books and curiosities, which either never were in being, or are irrecoverably lost. There were also published, as posthumous works of his, " Some Account of the Tombs and Monu- ments in the Cathedral of Norwich," and " An- swers to Sir William Dugdale's Inquiries about the Fens," together with some other small pieces. In the Biographia Britannica, is inserted a letter of his, containing " Instructions for the Study of Physic and some essays, entitled " Christian Morals," are attributed to him. From the enumeration of these different works, all exhibiting very great talent, ingenuity, and acquirement, he will appear to have fully merited the distinction conferred upon him by the College of Physicians, who chose him an honorary fellow of their body in 1665 ; and to have abundantly de- served the character given of him on that occasion — virtute et Uteris ornatissimus, " eminently em- bellished with literature and virtue." But it is not on the praises of others, but on his own writings that he is to depend for the esteem of posterity, of which he will not easily be deprived, while learning shall have any reverence among men : for there is no science in which he does not discover some skill ; and scarce any kind of know- ledge, profane or sacred, abstruse oi* elegant,