44 ROBERT POCOCK. 



" Tuesday, September 17th. Fine Sunday morning. 

 Company of the 42nd Regiment arrived from Scotland, 

 following the regiment which passed through this 

 town within a few weeks. Had a present made me 

 of a copper " Nero." 



tc Wednesday, September 18th. The watchman pro- 

 claims ( past two o'clock and a fine starlight night.' 

 Got out of bed on hearing this, and peeped at the 

 comet, which was more conspicuous than before. Now 

 seen in the north-east, its tail apparently more 

 upright, and in an oblique direction at the square of 

 the Great Bear. With much persuasion prevailed on 

 my wife to have a peep also (for the first time !), which 

 she did, with indifference declaring she never cared 

 for the Great Bear nor Little Bear, and that I had 

 better come to bed than be looking at such creatures, 

 and that the stars would do me no good. The finest 

 morning I ever beheld ! Wind at E. Brisk, yet 

 pleasant. At sunset a general gloomy reddish haze, 

 which I thought portended rain, and many meteors ; 

 however, it turned out starlight. Near nine a meteor 

 from the Great Bear passed over the tail of the comet 

 just above its head. Looked at the comet with a 

 common glass, and found the rays proceeded from the 

 circumference, making a vacuum. 



tf Wednesday, September 25th. Four fine horses 

 shipped by Mr. Woodgate for America. One was 

 valued at 1200Z., as certified in the cocquet at the 

 Custom-house. 



" Many Jews and crimps about the town ; a sure sign 

 of an Indian fleet arrived. Among the crimps are 

 many well-dressed women. As the business of crimp- 

 ing is unknown in the interior of the kingdom, let 



