20 JOUENAL OF AN EXCUESION TO EASTBURY: AND 
wliicli saves hay. The only Building in tolerable Preserva- 
tion is the Kitchen, which shews the immense size of the 
whole. It is an octagon with four fire places in as many 
corners, each larger than most you meet with now. In the 
Rotten Root of a tree within the Abbey, by digging found a 
great number of Scarabseus paralelopipidus with. Larvas. 
of them, of all sizes, who feed upon the rotten wood. 
June 1st. — Went down to the moors in Search of Plants^ 
found that what they call moors in this Countrey, are like 
our fenns in Lincolnshire, I mean the Best Part of them, for 
the worst is like the Peat moss's in Lancashire. Of this 
kind of country there is an immense tract. Running through 
the countey of Sommerset. Agues, Gnatts etc. etc. etc. are a& 
rife as in any Part of my Countrey, indeed we were almost 
bit to death by the Latter, Last night in Glastonbury Abbey. 
The weather being very Rainy, made my Search for plants 
very Short, or I imagine I might have found great variety 
of those that are usually found in such swampy places. The 
most remarkable I observ'd were, Drosera Longifolia, Myrica 
Gale, Utricularia major [vulgaris], Hypnum squarrosum and 
such like. Leave Glastonbury at one, pass through 
Bridgewater, a pretty good town with a River capable of 
Bringing up vessels of 2 to 300 tons, quite to the Bridge, 
Prom hence to Taunton, where are some Remains of Anti- 
quity, a Cell to the Monastery of Glastonbury, at least a 
Building which we took for such by the Arms of Glaston- 
bury — a Pelican being over the Door. Some walls and 
remains of a Castle said to have Been Defended by one of 
the family of Admiral Blake. Over the Door are the arms 
of the See of Win ton : in another place under a sheild on 
which is five Roses, on a Cross P. Langton Winton. 
From hence went to Hesticombe [Hestercombe], the 
seat of M'" Bamfeild, to see his Gardens, — found that tho 
