22 JOURNAL OF AN EXCURSION TO EASTBURY AND 
in form of a Bell, not remarkably, and upon that an urn with 
a scroll Left upon it for an inscription which we were much 
disappointed in not finding upon it, as so great a man must 
certainly put a very elegant inscription on so great a monu- 
ment on so great an occasion. 
Ath. — This day Walkd on the Eocks over the Ferry: found 
nothing which I had not seen before, except Asparagus 
officinalis. It grew in a salt marsh under a wood very 
near opposite to Jackson's Tower, just where the Wood closes- 
down to the River, and the Path turns up into the Wood. 
bth. — This morn went to Walmely to see M'' Champion 'i^ 
w^orks : found several Branches carried on there in a very 
extensive way, — making of Brass, Battering, pinning, etc. 
Here is also a work for the making of Speltre, a kind of 
white metal which as our guide told us is made from Lapis 
calaminaris, without any addition, which is never shewn at 
all, as the method of doing it is a secret. The immense 
number of wheels which are employed in this work, are 
turnd by water, to supply which, as there is only a small 
Brook, M'' Champion has erected two of the Largest fire 
engines in England, or perhaps anywhere Else, which raise 
the water that has been made use of, again into the Reservoir. 
The cylinders of each of them are Six feet 2 inches in 
diameter ; One of them works four pumps, each 30 inches 
the other only one, which is 60 inches in diameter as I 
measurd with my own hands, it being but of order and not 
working. That which workd made nine strokes in a 
minute, as the man told us sometimes ten or eleven, at each 
stroke raising 17 hogsheads of water. There is also in the 
garden at a small distance from M'' Champion's house a 
very surprizing Echo. Standing about ten or twelve yards 
from the Person who speaks, their voice seems to be re- 
peated out of the Clouds in the softest tone imaginable, they 
