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brooms, said by Mr. Wilkinson, the gardener, to be a 

 species of fir. Ib is the Araucaria imbricata, or the 

 Sir Joseph Banks pine, from Chili, introduced into this 

 country in 1 796. I left Mr. Bennet to sleep at Cobham, 

 and returned home. 



" Monday, 9th. Young cuttle-fish, half an inch long, 

 brought me. 



" Tuesday, Wth. Received letter from my son George 

 at Oxford. Mr. Arlis, the publisher, called, and I gave 

 him an order for 10Z. worth of books. 



" Wednesday, llth. Bought a new tea-pot of Barnas- 

 china'sboy for 3s. In afternoon, Captain Weddle, of Jane 

 brig, bought some books. He told me he was bound out 

 on the South Sea fishery, and that he had been twice 

 to New South Shetland, lately discovered ; but that it 

 produced no tree, shrubs, or vegetation, except a short 

 grass which grew sparingly. He had brought home 

 several specimens of stones and minerals from thence ; 

 but I did not find by his discourse any to be of value. 

 It is singular, I showed him a piece from the same 

 place lately given me by a sailor, who said it was gold 

 ore, but to me appeared only as yellow copper ore. 



" Thursday, 12th. Wrote a letter for Mrs. Currie to 

 Manchester to a young man, her favourite. This woman 

 partly told me her name was not Currie, and she was 

 determined to leave him. A young man, with his coat 

 all torn and mended, came into the shop, and left 5s. 

 deposit for a book to read. I found him a good Latin 

 and Greek scholar by his ready translation ! Learning 

 appears not to produce wealth ! but Mr. Arlis, on the 

 10th, said f a writer of original matter for the new 

 "Monthly Magazine" (edited by Dr. Campbell) gets 

 from six to eight guineas per sheet/ A gentleman and 



