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[(24^^ October 1955] arriving about 2.0 pm. We booked 
in at the Metropole, I left the car in 
to be serviced and we set off by 
bus. We walked from the Basin up 
the gorge to the gardens which were 
intelligently planted with azaleas and 
maples. A walk up a very steep road 
and bus back to the Museum and 
from there to the hotel. After 
dinner we went to the flat of Heather 
Jones, zoologist at the Museum, who was 
on the camp out where we drank 
beer and chatted till 10.0 pm. 
25^^ (Tuesday) It was a windy clear day 
[October 1955] when we started off from Launceston 
at 9.0 am and headed west. The 
thirty-mile trip through rolling country, 
green with lush pastures and given 
character by hawthorn hedges, poplars 
and other English trees in which 
were half-hidden old stone groves [guess] 
passed far too quickly. We finished 
our provisioning at Deloraine and 
