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Dr. Fuller,* where we were courteously received and hospitably 

 entertained. In the Doctor's garden we saw many choice and 

 curious plants, and from his summer-house, which is an octa- 

 gonal structure erected on an artificial eminence, we had fair 

 prospects of the grand family-seat of the Earls of Dorset, Knowle, 

 with its park, woods, and trees, and extensive views of the surround- 

 ing country. The Doctor regaled us with cold venison, pastry, 

 and extraordinary good strong beer. We were shown his study, 

 which is well furnished with valuable, scarce, and curious books. 



About noon we came to Tuubridge Wells, and immediately 

 set out to search the heaths and bogs thereabouts. On the 

 Heath, about half a mile from the Wells, a little way on the 

 left-hand of the road that goes to Frant, we found Lycopodium 

 clavatum, Hieracium fruticosum anr/nslifoUuj/i {H. umbellatum) ; 

 and about half a mile further near to Frant are bogs spread with 

 Gale, Lancashire Asphodel, Ascyron villosum, Gramen leucan- 

 thtmum [Rhynchospora alba), Ros soils fol. rotund., and many 

 other rare plants. Pneumonauthe is said to grow there, but we 

 could not find it. 



From thence we kept to the right-hand over the hills, till we 

 came to the stupendous high rocks about a mile and a half from 

 the bog, and about as far from the Wells, Here we gathered 

 Adianthum fol. bifidis, Muscus capil. coccineis, and a great variety 

 of other mosses. 



On the 17 th we reached Brede, a small town about eight miles 

 from Hastings, through horrid dismal roads, by Ticehurst and 

 Wadhurst, by which surely no coach or chaise had ever passed. 

 By the way we saw a great quantity of Tanacetum, and gathered 

 Mentastrum spicatum folio longiore, Mentha viridis, in a narrow, 

 steep passage through a wood, about a mile before we came to 

 Brede. Here we were kindly entertained by Mr. TindalPs brother. 



August 18^/i. — Having made a plentiful breakfast on oysters 



* Dr. Thomas Fuller, who lived at Sevenoaks, and where he practised as a phy- 

 sician, is well known as a celebrated author. The following works are from his pen ; 



' Gnomologia ; Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings.' 

 London, 1732. 12mo. 



' Introductio ad Prudentiam ; or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, tending to 

 Prudence and Management of Affaii's in Common Life.' London, 1726, 1727- 

 8vo. Eeprinted, 1743, 2 vols. 



The cold breakfast on venison and beer is a sample of the substantial hospitahty 

 of earlier times. 



