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autumnal squill (a scarce bulb) at Chalk in bloom. 

 Mr. Bullock, of the London Museum, called : he is a 

 pleasant man. Heard the news of Lord Wellington's 

 victory at Salamanca. 



"Tuesday, 18th. Mr. Bullock called and breakfasted. 

 Sold him some shells, &c., and saw him off for Scot- 

 land. He took his passage in the Northumberland , 

 Captain Paul. He has lately been in the Orkneys, 

 got some eider down bolsters and pillows, young 

 eagles, and scarce English birds. Rev. Mr. Phelps 

 called and bought fossils. Shifted some pots of 

 geraniums, and put in them some roots of autumnal 

 squills. Two of the blossoms of squills were white : 

 very uncommon indeed. 



" Wednesday, I9th. Very fine summer's day. Dust 

 flies. Had one of the white jackdaws brought me dead 

 to stuff. It appeared to have been starved. 



" Thursday, 20th. Fine day. One Fowler was to be 

 hanged at Maidstone for forgery. 



"Friday, 2lst. Mr. Payn, of No. 5, West Square, 

 Lambeth, called. 



" Saturday, 22nd. The other white jackdaw dies. 

 Yesterday was a hot day and I quarrelled with my 

 wife ; also heard some of my neighbours quarrel : 

 perhaps it is the state of the weather. Joe Cole, a poor 

 man, brought me a shilling of King Edward VI., 

 which he had found, with a thick gold ring and a gold 

 seal, on which was engraved a coat-of-arms, viz., Or, 

 a buck's head caboshed; crest, a bull's head issuing 

 from a coronet. They were found in an old chest of 

 drawers on breaking up. Mr. Pittard and Mr. Hatchard 

 called on me. Went out moth-catching : caught some 

 scarce moths in Single well Lane. 



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