Robert Pocock the Gravesend Historian Naturalist Antiquarian And Printer
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Mr. Button of Birmingham or Sheffield called. Mr. Hutton is a mineralogist. " Tuesday, 1 5th. The neat little Peter boat, of nine tons, lies in the canal. She has come round from Dart- mouth, with Captain Ferguson (once in the East India trade) and one man, named also James Ferguson. This man promises to send me some birds, anatomized, ROBERT POCOCK. 87 which is done there in twenty-four hours, by first skinning them and then immersing them under the water, where the sea-lice eat off their fles...h presently. A haze round the horizon in the evening. " Friday, 18th. Mr. Parker and a young gentleman called on ine. Mr. Parker is an antiquary : has ascertained an accurate account of all measures and weights from the earliest periods, deducing them as a standard from the pyramids of Egypt. He is in search of Roman curiosities. Mary Pocock called. Bought of Mrs. Reding a Queen Anne halfpenny, and a brass medal of George II. , for sixpence. Mr. Reding has a Queen Anne farthing. Mrs. Reding bought forty hanks of fine silk, weighing one ounce and a quarter and one dram, the produce of 300 silk-worms in 1812.
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