66 ROBER T POCOCK. 



and new ropes of one price, viz. one shilling and 

 twopence per pound. Fine clear starlight evening. 

 Yenus shone bright. 



" Monday, April 1 3^. Wind strong, E. Went with 

 Mrs. P. to West Tilbury. Returned, having got some 

 oxlips, double polyanthus, and flowers from an old 

 woman. In going up Tilbury Hill found a piece 

 of sandy pudding-stone. Woodlark sings. Gulls 

 hovering over the river. Observed water ranunculus 

 in bloom. Bees out, and being fed in elder with 

 honey. 



" Wednesday, April 15^ Went with G. and C. P. to 

 Thong. Saw first hitchwort in bloom ; also tuberose 

 moschatel and wood sorrel. Thought I heard a 

 nightingale. My nectarine has been in bloom these 

 three days. 



"Friday, April 17 th. Mrs. P. went to Dartford. 

 Hail two or three times in the course of the day. 

 Returned in the evening, and said a girl about twelve 

 or thirteen was buried that day at Dartford, who had 

 been burnt to death by her clothes taking fire ; and 

 that a lad had been killed that day by a cart going over 

 him. 



(( Saturday, April 18th. Found in bloom blue cresses 

 on the hill (Latin name unknown) ; also geranium, 

 purple bloom, which falls off. 



" Sunday, April 19/i. Botany Bay ship came down 

 (the Indefatigable). Got a root of wall rue from 

 Northfleet Church. Mr. Smith's gardener called, who 

 said that Sir. Joseph Banks within five or six years 

 had altered the name of Orchis Militaris to Latifolia, 

 and the Orchis Mascula to Maculata. I doubt this 

 story, although I look upon this gardener to be one of 



