162 ROBERT POCOCK. 



fighting by his side ! Bought by Mr. Grafter, and 

 sold to Mr. Brett for 14s. 



"Tuesday, 17th. General cloud. Sent a letter to 

 Mr. S. Pocock, in answer to his of the 8th inst. Young 

 Taylor (butcher) buried in the Princess Street Chapel 

 ground, attended by the Comical Fellows' Society. 

 Sent a letter to Mr. Lakes of Clare Hall, Cambridge. 



"Wednesday, 18th. Settled with Glover for all 

 cesses due to this day. A blind worm brought alive. 



" Thursday, 19th. Professor Henslow from Cam- 

 bridge called and left me some dried plants. 



f( Saturday, 2lst. Alarmed this morning about four 

 with the market-bell ringing for a fire at the Prince 

 Regent Public-house, Town Quay. Soon extinguished. 

 In evening Mr. Crafter brought a golden plover, shot 

 at Tilbury Fort. There were forty or fifty in a flock 

 which, alighting on the ground, all separated, so that 

 two could not be shot together. This bird does not 

 seem to be so well described as it ought. 



" Sunday, 22nd. Sent a letter to Miss Lousada 

 with thanks for former favours, and sent her six fossils. 



" Monday, 23rd. Had brought me by Neil, water- 

 man, the smallest tern, which weighed three ounces 

 (Sterna minuta), shot at Gravesend. 



" Tuesday, 24/i. Sent my tern and a golden plover 

 to Mr. By all's to stuff. Decided a wager by Walker's 

 Gazette, and found it wrong, by stating that Sunder- 

 land was only 204 miles instead of above 290 ! 



" Wednesday, 25M,. Mr. Jerry C died. This 

 man was on board the Preston, man-of-war, when the 

 English fleet fought the Dutch. He had been a 

 Gravesend waterman, and once kept the Dundee Tap 

 in Wapping. He was noted as a reprobate character, 



