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placed upon an eminence by the sea. Took tea with Bowman, 

 who gave me some of his duplicate plants. 



Sept. 23. Left Newcastle . . . arrived at Manchester. 



Sept. 24. Left Manchester at five a.m., and passing through 

 Altrincham, crossed the new railroad to London at a point between 

 the two great viaducts. A large number of men were just com- 

 mencing the excavation. The next town was Northwich. The 

 road then passed through Delamere Forest, consisting mostly of fir, 

 and reached Chester at eleven a.m. I walked round the walls of 

 Chester, saw the cathedral and as much of the city as I could 

 explore alone, and was very much struck by various parts of it. 

 The cathedral is built of red sandstone. Eeached Shrewsbury. 

 Called on Leigh ton in the evening. 



Sept 25. Spent the day with W. A. Leighton. 



Sept. 26. To Hereford, 



Sept. 27. To Bath, passing through Eoss and Monmouth. 

 Before reaching Monmouth passed Goodrich Castle, placed in a 

 very commanding situation. The road then follows the course of 

 the river Wye to Chepstow. The river winds very much, and is 

 everywhere bounded by lofty wooded hills. We stopped for a few 

 minutes at Tintern, long enough to have a hasty sight of the Abbey. 

 We crossed by the old passage in about ten minutes with a fair wind, 

 and I reached Bath at half -past seven p.m. Noticed Campanula patula 

 in plenty on bank by the roadside near the river Wye. 



Oct. 3. Walked to Wyck and saw the Ulex nanus in full flower. 



Oct. 7. Went to Hampton Rocks with Mr. Lockey We 



measured a pollard Elm in the lane leading from Hampton Church 

 to the mill and found it to be twenty feet ten inches in circumference 

 at about three feet from the ground. 



Oct. 14. Left Bath for London. 



Oct. 16. A great fire in the evening ; Parliament Houses burned 

 down. 



Oct. 17. Arrived at Cambridge. 



Oct. 18. Walked with Henslow to Madingley Hall to see a very 

 large fungus found on one of the trees there. The house is a very 

 fine old place, having a grand entrance hall supported by pillars, and 

 a large polished oak staircase. 



Oct. 26. J. L. Brown and 1 went to Grantchester. We took 

 from under the bark of an old railing a large number of Hylesinus 

 furcatus. 



Nov. 4. J. L. Brown and I went to the Gogmagog Hills but 

 found very little, only a few Halticas and small Staphjlinidae, This 

 day was the election of a new Vice-Chancellor of the University. The 



