8 4 ROBERT POCOCK. 



laughing hyena, &c., an emu, a black swan, two peli- 

 cans, &c., a cassowary, an elephant, and a crane. 



" Friday, 28^. Dull, windy day. Cold. Third day 

 of Strood Fair. Jury sat on a young woman (a girl of 

 the town) who threw herself out of the window at the 

 Britannia, because she had been locked in. 



" Wednesday, September 2nd. Went to Lower Hope 

 Battery. Saw two porpoises. Mr. Odden shot a 

 heron and two gulls (rounded tail, black at tip). Ob- 

 served many insects on the river (cimex, &c.) at the 

 edge of the tide. Large long-leg crane gnats very 

 numerous. A company of Marines land from Anholt 

 Island, in the Baltic. 



"Saturday, oth. Fine summer's day. Bright. Heard 

 Lord Wellington had marched into Madrid. Baltic 

 fleet arrived to-day here. Wind E., passing all the day. 



" Sunday, 6th. Fine summer's day, yet wind blows 

 fresh. Walked to Cobharn Church, where 1 heard 

 Lord Darnley and the Lord Mayor of London had been 

 to the service in the morning. The church has lately 

 had a barrel-organ put up in the loft (the gift of Lady 

 Darnley) adapted to play sundry tunes or portions of 

 the Psalms, which have been selected and printed in a 

 small duodecimo, this year. The church has lately 

 been whitewashed, fresh painted and varnished, and 

 sentences of Scripture written on the walls, which the 

 parishioners call * decorating ' it ; but the ancient stalls 

 and beautiful monument of Lord George Cobham with 

 his lady is suffered to fall to decay. The antique brass 

 plates of the ancient Lord Cobhams are half -gone, and 

 the antiquary finds himself greatly vexed by the inju- 

 dicious placement of a screen and communion-table 

 across and over the inscriptions near the middle 



