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July 22. Left Sancreed, and reached Helston, from whence we 

 went to Euan Minor and Grade to botanize, but the wet prevented 

 our doing or seeing much. Gathered Eiica vagans on the road-side. 



July 23. Foggy all day. Went to the Lizard. Drove to 

 Kynance Cove, but the tide was in, so that we could not get upon 

 Asparagus Island ; walked along very fine cliffs to the Soap Rock, 

 and gathered Allium sibiricum, Genista pilosa, and tindoria var. Then 

 walked to the Lizard Town and lighthouses. Drove to Grade, and 

 walked along the cliffs to Euan Minor by Cadgwith, near which is 

 a hollow communicating with the sea by a cave called "Hugga 

 Driggee." On the north-west side of this hollow we found Orobanche 

 ruhi'a, and on the left bank ascending towards Euan Minor from the 

 village a curious Trifolium. 



July 24. By Truro, a fine town (gathering on the way in young 

 woods above Perran Warfe Erica ciliaris), Grampound, and St. 

 Austell, where is a fine church with the figures remaining in the 

 niches of the tower (the church at Probus is a finer one), to Lost- 

 withiel. Walked to Restormel Castle, which is seated upon a lofty 

 conical hill, and has its outer wall quite perfect ; it is circular, and 

 the finest of its kind that I have seen. 



July 25. Along a beautiful road through Liskeard and Callington 

 to Tavistock, and on to Ivybridge by the Moor Eoad by Meavy. 

 (From this place we ascended Sheep Tor under the guidance of the 

 farmer of Longstone farm). It is a superb hill, with lofty walls of 

 rock upon its summit, and a curious hollow under the stones called 

 the Pixies' Hole (See Mrs. Bray's Work). 



July 26. To Kingsbridge. Visited the Start Point in heavy rain. 



July 27. In the morning to Salcombe and the Bolt Head. At 

 Salcombe the Lemon tree grows in the open air, only covered in 

 winter by a reed-mat ; it is a beautiful place. Returned to Kings- 

 bridge, and went by Slapton, where is a fine old tower of a monastery 

 in a garden, in which the Polycarpon tetraphyllum grows; by the 

 Slapton Sands finding C&irigiola litoralis by the bridge ; and Black- 

 pool Sands near Stoke Fleming, on which we found Euphorbia peplis, 

 to Dartmouth. This is a curious town, with streets so narrow as 

 scarcely to admit a carriage, and only doing so at each end of the 

 town, and seated upon a very beautiful estuary -with finely wooded 

 banks, presenting the appearance of a succession of lakes. We 

 arrived at Torquay in the evening. 



July 28. I spent the day with Mrs. Griffiths, the famous Algo- 

 logist, and her two daughters, and gathered Bupleurum aristatum 

 and Helianthemum polifolium on the Beacon Hill and point of land 

 near to it. 



July 29. A very wet day ; spent it with Mrs. Grifiiths. 



