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Ergot of rye was also abundant. 
Returned about 7 p.m. and partook of hot dinner consisting of 
mackerel, bream, and rock fish. 
Saw numerous patients, for whom I prescribed. Among the 
rest were the brother-in-law of our landlord, a person named 
Martin Hernan, and another, Michael Haharty. 
Visited a cottage near the Seven Churches, where we had milk 
and potheen, 
Thursday, 26th August 1852. 
This morning was very fine, and we rose at 5 a.m., but as there 
was not a breath of wind we had to delay our journey by boat. 
After breakfast a breeze began to spring up, and we started 
about 8 a.m. with a fair wind for Roundstone, which we reached 
in 34 hours. The distance is about 20 miles. The breeze 
sprang up very quickly, and the Atlantic waves were rather high 
to be comfortable for bad sailors. The strength of the breeze 
kept the boat tolerably steady. On reaching Roundstone we 
proceeded to the inn kept by Mr. Macaulay, the postmaster, the 
father of Wm. M‘Call, who died of cholera in 1849, and who did 
so much to promote our knowledge of Irish seaweeds ; his name 
is constantly mentioned by Harvey in his Phycologia, The 
father has taken the name of Macaulay, which he says is his 
correct family name. He is a Scotchman by birth, and was 
delighted to see Mr. Menzies in his kilt. The old man was 
constantly speaking of the merits of his son, to whose memory 
he has erected a monument in the churchyard of the Presby- 
terian Chapel. He took us to see it. 
We then walked over the gap in the hill behind Roundstone 
and gathered :— 
Nympheea alba Eriocaulon septangulare 
Erica mediterranea 
After lunch we went by car to Clifden, which we reached 
about 6.30 p.m. Mr. Macaulay accompanied us in the car about 
a mile to show us a station for Erica Mackaitz. On the road to 
Clifden we passed abundance of this heath, and at Craggiemore, 
in marshy ground on the left-hand side of the road, and in hollow 
ground, we gathered Erica ciliaris. 
