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We could get no wine, but Mr. IVIayor made so excellent punch 

 that every bowl was better than its predecessor. After a light 

 supper and a hearty draught of this liquor, they took leave of us, 

 and set out most cheerful for their respective habitations. At 

 our first coming we took a turn or two about the town, and by 

 the ruins and the remains we could plainly discover that this has 

 been a fine, regular i)lace. We found on its walls Umbilicus 

 Veneris, Solarium lethale {Atropa Belladonna), in the marsh 

 Althaa, Kali minus [Salicornia?) Tripolimn Atriplex, Deltoides 

 mariiia [Armeria maritima). 



August 20th. — This morning early we left Winchelsea, accom- 

 panied by two of our friends, who were to conduct us to the sea- 

 side, in order to our passing that arm of the sea that runs up 

 to Rye Bay ; too early for the tide, we stopped at Winchelsea 

 Castle, about two miles from the town. Here we were pretty 

 near and had a full prospect of Rye. Upon that side of the 

 castle wall that looks to Rye, we found great plenty of Cha- 

 maedrys {Teucrium), and on the ruins, Hipposelimwi (Alexanders). 



The tide being near down, we drove about a mile before we 

 came to the channel of the river that runs from Rye. After a 

 stay of about half an hour, which we employed in shell-picking, 

 etc., our friends found a place where we might ford the river 

 safely with our chaise. We took their directions and parted. 



We then drove on the sands, between the beach and the sea, 

 for two miles, and then entered Romney Marsh. In six or seven 

 miles we came to Lyd, a pretty market-town ; the roads were 

 extraordinary good, and the fields all thereabout overspread with 

 Caryophyl. marinus [Statice Armeria). 



About three miles further we baited at New Romney, one of 

 the Cinque Ports. Near the sea was found Mercurialis, but 

 we forgot to look for the Roman Nettle, said to grow in the 

 street. From hence we had eleven miles, some part very sandj^^ 

 and other parts very stony, upon the banks of the sea to Hythe, 

 where we dined and went to the beach, but could find little 

 worth our notice except in the marshes between the town and 

 beach, where Ave met with Anthoxanthum, and in the street near 

 the church Mercurialis again. We were afterwards informed 

 by the parson of Knowlton, who lived many years in this town, 

 and has pretty good taste of botany, that there is very good 

 simpling on the cliffs and hills above the town, that Urtica 



