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and a cyphering book to transcribe some French 

 therein. 



" Friday, 4th. Mrs. Cabamell of Coburgh Theatre 

 bought a pink conch. Her husband is the architect, 

 and will give a ticket of admission. 



" Sunday, (5th. Sunny, fine ; rain at night. Heard 

 that last Friday morn at daylight an immense quantity 

 of hirundines were seen flying towards the moon. 

 She at that time was about westward. I have said 

 before they come and go in a storm. 



" Monday, 7th. The Royal Sovereign yacht went past 

 last Saturday with the Duke and Duchess of Clarence 

 on board. 



"Tuesday, 8th. Wind strong, W.S.W. Eain at 

 intervals. Grafter's paragraph appeared in the 

 Rochester Gazette about the market provisions, &c., &c. 



" Wednesday, 9th. Received a letter from Mr. Wai- 

 cot, Highnam Court, near Gloucester, for plants, stating 

 his son, who went to the East Indies, died there. 

 Captain Vanburgh died. 



" Thursday, 10th. Fine, windy, clear. The bishop 

 comes to Gravesend, and confirms there. He is blind. 

 Took refreshment at Dr. Crawford 's. 



e( Friday, llth. Fine. Employed all day in sorting 

 my dried plants. Young Tadman buried. This young 

 man bade fair to be an excellent artist, as he showed 

 by a drawing of the ' Round Tree,' near Gravesend, well 

 done. This remarkable tree was at its highest pros.- 

 perity about 1800 ; then being about sixty feet high 

 and spreading above forty feet. It was injured, as so 

 many shots were fired into it during the war, and since 

 that time has been going visibly to decay. 



" Saturday, 13th. Settled with Mr. Cooper, the milk- 



