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couldbe seen from Highgate to Southern!. Engines came 

 from Rochester and the three towns, and a man got hurt 

 by jumping from one, which passed over his body. 



Wednesday, 20th. Lent Mr. Rackstraw a volume of 

 old magazines. 



" Friday, 22nd. Sale at Layton's of his stock. 

 Walked with Mr. Walton to view where the fire had 

 been at Denton. Remarked that if the wind had been 

 N.E., probably the barn and stacks, and even the 

 house, would have been in danger, or all consumed. 

 Went to Wombwell Hall and found there a good paint- 

 ing of the ruins of Rome, the amphitheatre, &c., pro- 

 bably by Panini, and another painting of Venice by a 

 capital artist. There was the painting of a shipwreck 

 (apparently modern), and in the garden were two 

 low shrubs of the cornelian cherry in bloom, like unto 

 the tree growing a few yards to the westward of the 

 Bathing-House, which bears fruit at Christmas of along, 

 oval form ; but it is very scarce, as I never remember 

 but once in my life seeing the fruit on it. The gardener 

 would not have it as bearing that name, but the 

 Virginia dogwood, showing me another shrub, not in 

 bloom, as a cornelian cherry : however, I would not 

 give up my opinion. I am told there is a large tree of 

 this sort at Mr. TreadwelPs, a farmer at Hartley ; the 

 one near the Bathing-House appeared indigenous. In 

 the green-house is a Barbadoes cherry; otherwise it con- 

 tained onty a small collection of plants. In the even- 

 ing a gentleman (foreign) bought a chart of the river, 

 having come home in a ship from Lima (where he had 

 resided some years), and brought from thence, as mer- 

 chandize, a great quantity of gold and silver in bars, 

 supposed half a million as it filled several of our short 



