24 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1834 



Garden, a new institution, but beautifully laid out, and having a 

 very good collection of animals. Here I first saw a rhinoceros and 

 some young alligators. It is a most formidable rival to the London 

 institutions of a similar kind. At five p.m. left Liverpool by the 

 railroad for Manchester. Arrived at 6.15, distance thirty-one miles. 



Jtily 24. Left Manchester at a quarter before five a.m. for 

 Darlington. Passed over some high, barren moorland, and, before 

 reaching Huddersfield, had to walk a mile-and-a-half down a hill 

 on account of the road having been quite cut up, as if with a plough, 

 by two hours' rain the evening before. It was as much as they 

 could manage to get the coach itself over. Reached Leeds at half- 

 past nine and proceeded immediately through Harrogate and Ripon 

 to Darlington, at which place arrived at half -past four p.m. Harrogate 

 is divided into two villages, Upper and Lower. Ripon has a very 

 good square market place, and the Minster is a very beautiful object 

 from the road. After dinner I walked to High ConisclifFe, about 

 five miles up the Tees, to see J. J. Cundill, late of St. John's, and to 

 stay a few days. 



July 25. We walked about a mile up the river Sherne to look 

 for Lysimachia punctata, but found only L. vulgaris. 



July 26. We saw the Campanula latifolia in great beauty. 



July 27. The church of Coniscliffe is very old, and has old 

 carved pews in it. The parsonage house is seated on the top of a 

 rock that has been worked as a lime quarry, so that the garden wall 

 rises from the edge of the rock. Here I first saw Primula farinosa 

 growing wild. 



July 30. Went to Clifle wood and the petrifying spring on the 

 bank of the river. Found in the wood Bibes alpinum. 



Aug. 1. Went to Darlington by the Barnard Castle omnibus at 

 half -past eleven, left Darlington by the " High Flyer " at two p.m. 

 and arrived in Durham at about half-past three (" The Three Tuns," 

 in the New Elvet, at Durham). The church at Darlington is a 

 cvirious structure, well worth inspection. At Durham called at the 

 Prebendal College in hopes of finding Mr. Gisborne, but he had left 

 a week before. Went to the Minster and was, of course, much 

 pleased with it. It stands between two steep banks descending to 

 the river. There is hardly any painted glass. In the evening 

 walked along the left side of the Wear through some wood, and 

 was much pleased by the beauty of the views. 



Aug. 2. Started at eight a.m. for Newcastle-on-Tyne. Called 

 on Mr. Wailes, Mr. Bowman, and Mr. Winch. Tea with Mr. 

 Bowman. We had much botanical conversation. 



Aug. 3. Wailes, Bowman, Mr. J. Alder (conchologist), and I 

 went to Shields to botanize and entomologize. We went in a gig 

 (as it is called, for it carried six and a child), a tight fit. Crossed 



