4 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1827—30 



May 2. Conversed with him after the botanical lecture, and 

 was asked to his house. Put an end to the Phrenological Society 

 this evening. Assisted Professor Henslow in putting his things in 

 order, before and after the lectures. 



June 9. To Southampton to join my mother and aunt Bedford. 



June 13. Went by steamer to the Isle of Wight; landed at 

 Cowes, and went by coach to Newport, visited Carisbrook Castle. 

 Left my mother and aunt and walked alone by Pedford, Godshill, 

 Appledurcombe Park, to Steephill and St. Lawrence, returned by 

 Whitwell to Newport. Keturned to Southampton next day. 



June 19. Botanized about Netley Abbey. 



June 22. We removed to Ryde, going in a sailing packet. 



June 23. Walked to St. Helens, crossed the mouth of Brading 

 Haven, to Culver Cliffs {Ophrys apifera). Returned by Yaverland 

 and Brading. 



July 3. Went by Newchurch to Ventnor, then along the top of 

 the cliffs to Sandrock hotel and Blackgang Chine. Slept at hotel. 



July 4. Returned to Ryde, Bonchurch footpath through east 

 end, Shanklin and Brading. 



CN^o Notes kept between Aug. 2&th and the following.) 



1830. Took my B.A. Degree in January. 



April 23. Lodgings at Mrs. Tomlinson's, Fitzwilliam Street. 



May 24. Elected a Fellow of the Philosophical Society. 



May 26. Paid a life subscription as a F.C.P.S. 



July 3. To Oxford, Mitre hotel.— /w/?/ 4. To Bath. 



July 5. To Birmingham and North Wales. 



Mallet (afterwards Fellow of Pembroke), having agreed to go 

 as tutor with Hockin and Fleming to North Wales, I determined to 

 join them for a time in order to see the country. 



July 5. Left Bath by Birmingham coach, where we arrived at 

 7 p.m. Left it for Shrewsbury at 10 p.m. and arrived there at 



5 a.m. Took coach for Bangor in half-an-hour. Country flat until 

 we arrived at the river Dee, when it began to heighten, and con- 

 tinued rising all the way to Bangor. After following the vale of 

 the Dee up the river for some way, we passed over into the vale of 

 Conway, in which the mountains rise to a great elevation on both 

 sides, and are mostly covered with wood. This we descended as far 

 as Bettws-y-Coed, near which we passed over a beautiful iron bridge 

 of one arch, and saw the waterfall of Rhaiadr-y-Wenol, close to which 

 the road runs, and soon arrived at Capel Curig, having been, since 

 we left Bettws, ascending a branch of the Conway, which we followed 

 as far as its source in Llyn Ogwen, from which lake the river Ogwen 



