196 ROBERT POCOCK. 



" Tuesday, July 1st. Fine. Grand dinner at New Inn 

 for eighty people, ladies and gentlemen, who danced 

 on the bowling-green Went into Essex and found 

 the flowering rush in bloom ; also the yellow iris. 



" Saturday, bth. Visited Mr. Scoones at Parrock. 

 Saw Colonel Dalton's library : only Hasted and Fisher's 

 edition of ' Rochester ' belonging to the county. 



" Sunday, 6th. Found in bloom yesterday the Vicia 

 crassa, going to West Wood by Denton's Fields (alias 

 Baker's). Also common cow -parsnip (Heracleum 

 spondylium), 



" Monday, 7th. Walked to Kingsdown. Found in 

 field next Buffet's, towards Southfleet, the Campanula 

 hybrida ; and took two brassy-thighed insects, feeding 

 on a flower.' 



" Tuesday, 8th. Walked toKnole, through Kemsing 

 and Seal. Saw at Kemsing a most curious house, or- 

 namented with box and yew, worth seeing again. Found 

 growing between Kemsing and Seal, water dropwort 

 (CEnanthe fistulosa), in road and footpath, near a place 

 called Noah's Ark. Saw the paintings at Knole House, 

 and greatly admired the portrait of Countess of Des- 

 mond, and. a painting of the present Duchess of Dorset. 

 The eyes of the Countess of Desmond are done admir- 

 ably, and the elegant figure of the duchess is lovely. 

 The number of rooms took up two hours in showing, 

 and the collection was greater than I supposed. Called 

 on Mr. Morris, an attorney, in Sevenoaks, and returned 

 to Kingsdown, by Kemsing, where we had tea in a 

 miserable public-house, and not much civility. Found 

 the pomatia snail, going to Kemsing. 



" Wednesday, 9th. Walked to Otford, a better place 

 for accommodation than Kemsing. Called on Mr. and 

 Mrs. Waters, who lay claim to the estates of Waters, 



