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to look for the Melissa moldavica [Bracoce^halum molda- 

 vicum, — not a native of England,] but instead of it found 

 Melissa Fuchsi \_Melittis inelissopliyllum, Linn.] in plenty, 

 which we suppose was mistaken for it. Bubia major 

 grows also there. In Devonshire are abundance of deep, 

 narrow, shady lanes ; the country a very uneven one. 



Wednesday, July the 9th, we passed on to Exeter. 

 We viewed the town ; it has one fair street ; the houses 

 well built ; the cathedral is small but neat ; it hath two 

 steeples, one at each end of the cross building, in the 

 one ten bells, in the other, one large one ; the lady's 

 chapel is converted into a library, and therein, at the 

 upper end, a monument of Sir Peter Carey and his lady; 

 there are other little chapels, and in them several ancient 

 monuments, to wit, Sir Gaven Carew's and his lady's, 

 and Sir Peter Carew's (Sir Gaven and his lady were 

 poisoned) ; Bishop Stafford's, who was once chancellor of 

 England ; Mrs. Elizabeth Barret's, an herse cut in mar- 

 ble ; Bishop Cotton's ; Sir John Gilburne's and his 

 lady's ; Bishop Carey's ; Bishop Branscombe's ; Bishop 

 Oldham's, in the wall (he was excommunicated) ; Bishop 

 Stapleton's, and of his brother, a knight ; Su* Thomas 

 Speake's ; one of another Sir Peter Carew, who died at 

 Ross, in Ireland ; Mr. Harbin's ; Dean Lacy's, his effigies 

 as naked, carved in stone, (he was found dead in his 

 study) ; Bishop Marsham's ; and one of Courtenay Earl 

 of Devonshire ; another of Bohun, Earl of Hereford ; 

 Bishop Lacy's, who built the chapter-house ; and in the 

 wall of one of the wings, a monument of Leofricus, the 

 first bishop of Exeter. The cloister is pulled down, and 

 there are now little houses, which the dean and chapter 

 have given to poor ancient people to inhabit. The 

 chapter-house is different from all that we have seen, an 

 oblong, like a chapel, handsomely gilded on the top. A 

 good area about the church. 



Thursday, July the 10th, from Exeter we travelled 

 through Honiton to Morley, twenty-one miles. We saw 

 nothing remarkable in this day's journey. 



