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differ about it. It belongs to the class Tetradynamia, 

 order Siliquora, the genera Sisymbrium or Erysimum. 

 However, on the authority of Mr. Peen, who may be 

 relied on, all the leaves are alike, the segments of the 

 leaf being wing-cleft : its smell is very disagreeable. 



" Thursday, 23rd. Windy clouds, wind easterly. 

 Wrote to Mr. Gray to name a moss found in the River 

 Stour, near Chilham. 



" Friday, 24th. Wrote to Mrs. Amhurst, a widow 

 lady at Ore, near Faversham, for leave to visit her 

 garden, which contains a great variety of flowers. 



"Sunday, 26th. Went with Mary Pocock to 

 Rochester Cathedral to divine service, in hopes of hear- 

 ing Rev. Mr. Stevens the new Dean; instead of whom 

 an affected clergyman preached who lost his words and 

 voice at the end of each sentence, so that we left, neither 

 made better nor instructed. Mary was not pleased 

 with the mode of chanting. On coming out met with my 

 acquaintance, Mr. Spencer, by appointment, having 

 given him a friendly challenge to meet me there. 

 Went to my cousin Reuben Fletcher's, at Rochester, 

 to dinner, and better pleased with his roast beef and 

 plum pudding than with the sermon or preacher. Drank 

 tea and spent the evening with Mr. Spencer's family. 



"Monday, 27th. Went from Chatham by coach to 

 ( Upper Blue Bell/ and had from the top of the house 

 an extensive view, as we saw the road (plainly) going up 

 Shooter's Hill (about twenty-four miles distant), and 

 Lord Petrels house, near Brentwood, Essex (thirty miles 

 off), the towns of Southend and Leigh in Essex (about 

 twenty-five miles), the town of Sheerness with Minster 

 in Sheppy, the Nore and ships sailing down the Swin ; 

 to the south Cox's Heath; and south-west a fine prospect 

 of a campaign valley^ with the hills of Surrey. Yet this 



