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upset and one man drowned, and that a man was put 

 into Gravesend Gaol for uttering a forged or bad note. 

 Found a mushroom (not the eatable), and also a large 

 boletus from an old tree. 



" Saturday, May 23rd. The person taken up proved 

 to be the same person that came to try a new sort of 

 gunpowder at the fort here some time back by leave 

 of the Board of Ordnance. He called himself then 

 Lieutenant Parr of the navy, but now answers to 

 another name. It is said papers of a treasonable cor- 

 respondence have been found on him. He is remanded 

 to the gaol. 



"Sunday, May 24^. Walked to see Mr. Best's 

 tulips in bloom. Found and got red rattle in North- 

 fleet brooks. Saw two frogs with black eyes. Returned 

 under shore whilst the French frigate the Pomone 

 was dropping up. She was taken by the English in 

 the East Indies. 



" Trinity Monday, May 25th. Rainy morning. Went 

 with Mr. Grafter to Deptford, where there was an 

 annual procession to the Trinity House, but did not 

 see them, our business being to buy garden-pots. 

 Walked to Lewisham Nursery (late Mr. Russel's, now 

 Mr. Wilmot's), where Mr. C. bought some auriculas from 

 Mr. Chandler, a foreman : found the other foreman, Mr. 

 Winsor, a pleasant man and a good botanist. No gulls 

 seen in the river : they are gone to breed. 



"Tuesday, May 2Qth. The second summer's day this 

 year. At ten minutes after one, a large halo round 

 the sun. A regiment of Leitrim Militia passed through 

 the town towards Dartford. During the halo my 

 flowers drooped very much, as if they were prostrating 

 themselves to implore a blessing or dreading a storm. 



