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Meophara Fair, but reached only Hook Green, 

 where we dined with Mrs. French. Got some bee 

 orchis near Nursted. 



"Monday, July 13th. Went to Northfleet, where I 

 was chairman of the Natural History Society held at 

 the Leather Bottle. It was its first meeting, and 

 attended by twenty-one persons. 



" Monday, 20th. Went to Higham by canal ; 

 then to Upnor. Saw engineers instructing men in 

 making temporary magazines. Visited city stones 

 there and found fault with the mason's work in spell- 

 ing. Observed a halo round the sun about two 

 o'clock. Distant lightning in the evening. 



" Saturday, 25th. Went to Grays with Mr. Geer and 

 Arthur. Bought a mammillated echinus, the best ever 

 seen. Very windy. The Piedmontese frigate got 

 aground at Tilbury Fort and also in Long Reach. 



" Sunday, 26th. Went on board the Sir William 

 Pultney to see Mr. Edwards, the third mate, but 

 was not on board. Went to tea at Swanscombe. 

 Met the 33rd Regiment just disembarked from the 

 East Indies. Their band played excellently. The 

 inhabitants very busy in buying rupees and pagodas 

 from the drunken Indian soldiers, 



" Thursday, 30th. The 33rd Regiment marched out 

 to Chatham. 



"Friday, 3lst. Had some conversation with Mr. 

 Park (surgeon of this place for the East India Com- 

 pany), he is brother to Mungo Park, the famous 

 African traveller. He says the accounts related 

 through the newspapers give nearly the true par- 

 ticulars of his brother's death. He has received 

 journals of his brother's, from the last settlement 



