132 ROBER T POCOCK. 



" Thursday, 9th. A young man of the name of 

 Alfred Gardiner (bought song-book), going out in the 

 Mediterranean, Captain Ross, for the South Seas, 

 promises to collect curiosities. He says they eat and 

 make puddings of the terrapin's eggs, which are quite 

 round. His father is captain of a South Sea ship, 

 now out and expected back soon. In the evening Mr. 

 Blanchard called, who was with me when we went to 

 Cobham Hall on an inclement day of snow, cold, and 

 wind : the day when many great personages were 

 visiting there, and one got wounded I think he was 

 the Archbishop of York's son : and I think Lord 

 Wellington was there. Mr. Blanchard was the 

 managing owner and met with loss by the Thames, 

 East Indiaman, getting on shore in Sussex. Heard Mr. 

 Heathorn, the brewer, was dead. 



"Friday, 10th. Mr. Pottinger called and left me 

 Cobbett's ' Register ' to read, which I skimmed over. 

 It did not suit my taste, being deficient seemingly in 

 the subject and editorship. A fishing-boy brought me 

 eight shrimps with fourteen leg's, having the appear- 

 auce of longish shrimps, probably the Cancer linearis 

 of Linnseus, but Berkenhout says it has only twelve 

 legs. Its antennae were as long as its body. It may be 

 a new species. 



" Saturday, llth. Fine day. A woman applied to 

 me for a pair of patella shells to cover the nipples of 

 her breast, which she said were of infinite use in sore 

 breasts. It is not the first time I have heard of this 

 remedy, and I sold her a pair in exchange for a pair of 

 spotted cowries. 



" Monday, 13/7*. Dull. Sent off a letter 1 had wrote 

 to Mr. Walcot, sen., Clifton, near Bristol, to collect some 



