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anklagade, the Scottish lords [Lovat, Kilmarnock and 

 Balmerino] for the late rebellion was examined; St. 

 James's Park, the Royal Palace, &c, Chelsea Hortum 

 Botanicum, which is one of the principal ones in Europe. 

 Here we found the learned Mr. Miller, who is Horti Prce- 

 fectus of the same. 



In the evening I was at the house of Dr. Mortimer, 

 secretary of the Royal Society. Here I met the great 

 Ornithologus Mr. Edward, who had published a book on 

 birds in the English language, with matchless copper 

 plates, all in life-like colours, so that it looked as if the - 

 bird stood living on the paper. He had now with him 

 several drawings of a number of rare birds from several 

 districts, which he had hit off incomparably well, and 

 intended to publish. * 



To write with a lead pencil, so that it may not 

 be rubbed out. 



Mr. Warner told me that if one writes with a lead 

 pencil on clean paper, and, as soon as he has written, 

 dips the paper softly and carefully in clean water, and 

 afterwards leaves it to dry thoroughly, all that has been 

 written with the lead pencil will be very difficult [T. I. p. 

 369] to rub out, but sticks to the paper nearly as fast as 

 if it had been written with ink. 



[Paragraph about Liktornar, omitted.] 

 The 24-th April, 1748. 



Sj6-Rofvaren Angria. The device of the Sea-rover 



Angria to make ships sail fast. 



Captain Shierman, who had lived in the East Indies 



for a period of fourteen years, had in the same period had 



the ill luck to be once taken by the notorious sea-rover 



♦George Edwards (c. 1693— 1773), F.R.S. 1757, began to publish his 

 " Natural History of Birds "in 1743. He presented to the Brit. Mus. the 

 Dutch picture containing a drawing from life of the Dodo, from which most 

 modern representations are taken. [F. W. L.] 



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