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at Dartford when a sermon will be preached by the 

 Rev. DuCane. 



" Saturday, IQth. Had a song printed of a voyage 

 to Hudson's Bay in 1811 in the Prince of Wales ship. 

 Mr. Theobald lost his gold watch last night. 



" Sunday, 20th. Rev. Mr. Davis preached Mr. 

 VarchelPs charity sermon in evening. 



f( Monday, 2,1st. Foggy day. Mr. Park, the surgeon, 

 called and asked me if I had Major Pasley's book on 

 the war ; I said, no, but I had seen it and thought it 

 the most judicious and best written work I had ever 

 read ; he said Major P. was his school-fellow. I told 

 him it did his school-fellow much credit. Mr. Park said 

 he was sorry to find no scientific persons in Gravesend. 



" Wednesday, 23rd. Damp, foggy, dull day. George 

 P. left Mr. Giles' school. Mr. Giles has had his picture 

 drawn by a Mr. Medlin. A haw-finch (Loxia cocco- 

 thraustes) very scarce, shot at Stanstead. 



" Thursday, 24 to. The Waterford Militia marched 

 in from Billericay on the way to Chatham or Sheerness. 

 Talked to an intelligent private. Says that Waterford 

 is a plain county without mountains ; that he had seen 

 the poor people about Cronebane and the Wicklow 

 Mountains sift the sand that had come down from the 

 hills in search of the gold found about there ; that a 

 detachment of soldiers has been placed about there 

 since the discovery of the gold. (Mem. I have 

 a Cronebane halfpenny.) The private said he had 

 heard Sheerness was a bad place. I told him that 

 Sheerness was noted in great plenty for four things, 

 viz., plenty of gin, women, Jews, and sailors. 

 Mrs. Hull of Milton called. She came to bury 

 Mrs. Reader, her sister. Mr. P., a waterman, died. 



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