14 JOUENAL OF AN EXCUESION TO EASTBURY AND 
they are the Common place of interment of the slain in a 
Battle, as their Long shape seems to indicate that they cover 
more than one Body : but this is vague conjecture. I hope 
however some time or other to have an opportunity of Open- 
ing one or more of them, by which alone it can be deter- 
mined for what use and when they were erected. 
Observd to-day in the Garden a very strong Plant of 
Mellitis melissophyllum. As it is the only plant of any 
degree of curiosity in the whole garden, it seems more 
than probable that it came originally from the woods 
somewhere in this neighbourhood. 
22. — Set out this morn for Bristol. At night arrived 
there, comeing through Shaftesbury, Warminster and 
Bath without any occurrence worthy of note. 
23. — This morn crossd Aust Ferry. Oame to Chepstow 
about 12. Went to see the Castle, which is really a very 
line one built on the edge of a very high cliff, hanging over 
the Wye, its outworks stronger than any I have seen in so 
old a Castle. 
After dinner went to Pearcefeild, which is much im- 
provd since I saw it Last. Have no doubt of Pronouncing 
it the finest place I ever sav/. The transition here from 
very fine Lawn to naked rocks is very often seen by turning 
yourself round in the very spot on which you stand. The 
romantick in which the cheif beauty of the Place consists is 
formd by a semicircle of rocks coverd with wood, the front 
of which is washd by the Wye, the opposite side of which is 
formed sometimes by Hocks over which you see the Severn : 
at other times by the Eichest cultivated land in the world, 
coverd with Corn and Pasture. On the Top of Windcliff, a 
hill at the Farthest Extremity of the Improvements, you 
have an immensely extensive view of the countrey. On the 
uppermost Knowle I found Achemilla vulg : Hippocrepis 
