78 ROBERT POCOCK. 



(through the hands of Government), which I advised 

 him to print as a benefit to Mr. Mungo Park's wife 

 and numerous family living in Scotland. Mr. Park, 

 the surgeon, is a genteel man, six feet high, darkish 

 complexion and middling circumference. He had 

 heard of me through Major Elphinstone, of the Engi- 

 neers, and the Eev. Mr. Eashleigh, with whom he is 

 intimate. 



" This day was a cricketing match at Hartley Bottom, 

 between Gravesend against Meopham and Hartley: 

 Gravesend beat. There was also a donkey race. 



" Wednesday, August bth. Cloudy. First wheat 

 cut in Gravesend. Another toad-fish, four feet long, 

 taken at Gravesend Stairs : shown at the Swan Inn, two- 

 pence each for a sight. 



" Thursday, 6th. Read the ' Monthly Magazine' of last 

 month, wherein a gentleman requests (most laudably) 

 information on the turnip-fly or beetle (Chrysomela 

 saltatoria of Linnaeus). Looked into Dr. Turton's, but 

 could not find any species called saltatoria. Wrote 

 to the correspondent in the magazine to know on what 

 authority he made use of the word saltatoria. Yester- 

 day the judges came into Maidstone to begin the 

 assizes. 



" Friday, 7th. Heard that Captain Parr, alias Fane, 

 the gentleman who was taken up for offering a 50Z. 

 bank note, being a forged one, was found guilty and 

 sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. He was 

 also charged with high treason, in endeavouring to form 

 a correspondence with the ministry of France, as ap- 

 peared by his papers taken on him when seized some 

 time since at Gravesend. On his way to London this 

 gentleman, about twelve months ago, came to Graves- 



