2i 4 ROBERT POCOCK. 



Heard that the man had died whose legs were broken 

 by the caravan the other day. Very mild ; I may say 

 warm. Saw furze in bloom, with many other flowers 

 there .having been no frost or snow yet to hurt any flower. 



" Sunday, 28th. Mr. George Pocock came over, and 

 we drank tea with Mr. and Mrs. Alder, both of whom 

 we found scientific persons, well acquainted with 

 chemistry, geology, and biography, in which last Mr. 

 Alder has made a great collection of the natives of 

 Kent, and also Northumberland ! Mr. George P., was to 

 have been home to have heard a charity sermon in Dart- 

 ford Church, by the Kev. George Musgrave Musgrave, 

 AM., of Brasenose Coll., Oxford, chaplain to the Bight 

 Hon. the Earl of Bessborough. Mr. George Pocock 

 married Miss Kezia Smith of Brasenose College ! 



" Monday, 2,9th. A comet said to have been seen 

 this morning, but it is more likely to have been 

 Jupiter rising just before the sun, as I hear Jupiter is in 

 conjunction with the sun (?) . Lightning in the evening, 

 but distant. Jupiter is said in the Weeldy Despatch 

 to be in conjunction ; but Mr. Peen finds by White's 

 1 Ephemeris ' it ought to be opposition ! 



" Tuesday ,30th. Received a letter from my daughter 

 Sally, saying she had engaged herself to a lady, Mrs. 

 Parker, No. 12, Terrace, Clapton, and that she goes on 

 Thursday next. Received letter from George Pocock, 

 desiring me to lend him the great hammer, rolling 

 tools, lettering tools, backing hammer, some basil, 

 and anything else in the binding business. Mr. R. 

 Peen called this evening, saying it again lightened in 

 the S.E., and that the comet had been seen three 

 nights, about one or two in the morning, in the E. 

 or E.S.E., with its tail perpendicularly, but not high 



