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enquire. At Kirkton, a village near Boston, there is 

 (which Camden also taketh notice of) a very fair church, 

 built cathedral- wise. This town gives original and name 

 to that sort of apples which are called at Cambridge 

 corruptly Girton pippins, of a very pleasant taste. It's 

 truly observed by Camden, that in Holland, in Lincoln- 

 shire, and generally in all the fen countries, the churches 

 are very fair, and built of stone, though the country 

 thereabouts, for many miles, scarce affords a pebble. 



July the 27th, and the 28th being Sunday, we lodged 

 at Boston. The town for that country is large, populous, 

 and hath a good trade. The church is fair and great. 

 The steeple, for a toAver, the tallest that ever I saw; 

 standing in a level country, it may be seen for many 

 miles, and is also a sea-mark. From the ground to the 

 highest top the ascent is of 364 steps. The lead lant- 

 horn (as they call it) is uncovered, and raised above the 

 leads to a very considerable height, viz. seventy-nine 

 steps. There is a kind of Exchange which they call the 

 Mart-yard (by Camden called the Gild,) and a free school, 

 and some other buildings which we took notice of. The 

 town is governed by a mayor, twelve aldermen, &c. 



July the 29th, we rode from Boston through Lincoln, 

 to a place called the Spittle, thirty-four miles. By the 

 way we passed Tattershall, where there is a castle belong- 

 ing to the Earl of Lincoln. This, of a market town, is 

 the meanest that I have seen in the south of England. 

 In Tattershall Park we first discovered Pneumonanthe 

 \G-entiana Pneumonanthe, Linn.], which afterwards, on 

 many heathy grounds, we found both in Lincolnshire and 

 Yorkshke. We passed very bad ways, and had like to 

 have been laid fast in a place called my Lady's Hole, in 

 a rotten marshy ground near Tupham Abbey. As we 

 proceeded towards Lincoln we saw, on the left hand, the 

 ruins of Bardney Abbey, and on the right of Berhns we 

 passed over a great water, at a place called the Short 

 Ferry. At Lincoln we viewed the cathedral, which is, 

 indeed, a very beautiful building, with a double cross. 



