174 CHARLES CARD ALE BABINGTON. [1854 



July 20. Went to Pampisford Hall this morning ; in the after- 

 noon walked to Babraham and saw the gardens, and returned to the 

 Hall. 



July 21. Mr. Hamond brought me back to Cambridge. 



July 27. Professor Henslow brought 280 of his parishioners to 

 visit Cambridge. They arrived early in the day, walked over the 

 place, dined, and had tea in Downing College Hall and Combination 

 Room, and returned in the evening. I led the party under 

 Henslow's orders. 



Aug. 8. Cambridgeshire Naturalists' Club Meeting at Balsham, 

 but I only of the members attended. I posted there with Liveing 

 and Sprague as my companions. We went to the "Bell" Inn. 

 Visited the beautiful church, of which the tower is singular from its 

 buttresses. We went to and through Balsham Wood and Borley 

 Wood, then about a mile along the Woolstreet towards Cambridge, 

 and back across the fields to Balsham. After dinner we went to the 

 Balsham Ditch at Oxcroft, and as far as a little brook beyond it. 



Aug. 9. Went to Lowestoft with Newbould. 



Aug. 12. Gathered Urtica pilulifera and Centaurea Calcitrapa on 

 the sands by the lower town (both plentiful there), lunched with 

 Dr. Whewell, and went with him to the church. Returned to 

 Cambridge. 



Aug. 21. Went with Sprague to Waterbeach by rail, walked by 

 the river side to Upware Ferry, and returned by Middle Hill Drove. 

 Dined at Horningsey. Walked to Cambridge. 



Sept. 7. To Lichfield to spend a few days with my cousin 

 T. G. Babington. 



Sept. 9. Went to Etocetum and saw, in the field below the church, 

 traces of the ancient wall, and in the walls of a farm-yard on the 

 opposite side of the road with the church, some very fine courses of 

 Roman wall of chiselled stones. 



Sept. 11. From Lichfield to Chester and Mold by railway, then 

 by coach to Ruthin, for the Meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological 

 Association. 



Sept. 12. By the old road to Mold, to Y-Foel-Fenlli, a very 

 extensive hill fort with strong double trenches, and in some parts 

 treble ; two approaches, one from Bwlch-pen-Barras, one from Bwlch 

 Agricola, the former the chief one. Then Avent along the hill tops 

 to Moel Famma, upon which there is a ridiculous tower. Then to 

 Moel-y-Gaer, a small but strong hill fort. Descended by Fron Ganol, 

 Hirwyn, and Glybtir to the river Clwyd, and along the fields back 

 to Ruthin. View from the hills beautiful. Saw the true Pyrus 

 Aria on the descent from Moel-y-Gaer. Also the Arctium majus and 

 tomentosum in several places. 



