The Table book; . : it is not fron;contr^e, but contre. The Vine. The Romans had so much concern withthe vine and its fruit, that there are moreterms belonging to it, and its parts, , products, and other appurtenances,than to any other tree :— Vitis, the tree; palmes, the branch;pampinus, the leaf; racemus, a bunch olgrapes ; uva, the grape; capreolus, a ten-dril; vindemia, the vintage; cinwni, wineacinus, the grape-stone. Posthumous Honour. Joshua Barnes, the famous Greek pro-fessor of Cambridge, was remarkable for avery extensive memory; but his judgmentwas not exact: and when he
The Table book; . : it is not fron;contr^e, but contre. The Vine. The Romans had so much concern withthe vine and its fruit, that there are moreterms belonging to it, and its parts, , products, and other appurtenances,than to any other tree :— Vitis, the tree; palmes, the branch;pampinus, the leaf; racemus, a bunch olgrapes ; uva, the grape; capreolus, a ten-dril; vindemia, the vintage; cinwni, wineacinus, the grape-stone. Posthumous Honour. Joshua Barnes, the famous Greek pro-fessor of Cambridge, was remarkable for avery extensive memory; but his judgmentwas not exact: and when he died, on*wrote for him this Epitaph. Hie jacet Joshua Barnes,felicissimae memorise,expectans judicium. The Kings Arms. When Charles 11. was going home onenight drunk, and leaning upon the shoul-ders of Sedley and Rochester, one of themasked him what he imagined his subjectswould think if they could behold him inthat pickle. — Think ! said the king, that I am my arms, supported by twobeasts. 430 THE TABLE KESTQJT CROSS. Com. Kent, 13 miles from London, 3 from Bromley.—Itinerary. _ When T desifjned with my friend W. avisit to tlie Dalwich gallery, which we didnot effect, we did not foresee the conse-quence of diversion from our intent; andhaving been put out of our way, we strolledwithout considering the end thereofHence, our peradventure at the CrookedBillet, on Penge Common ;* our loitering tosketch the Bridge on the Road to Beck-enham ;-(? the same, for the same purpose, at the Porch of Beckenham Church-yard ;;the survey of Beckenham Church ;§ theview of its old Font in the public-housegarden; II and the look at the hall of Wickharn Court, and West Wickhamchurch. If New and beautiful prospiCtsopened to us from the latter ; andto the just enumerated six articles, and Vol. \. p. 766. t p. p. 771. t p. 811. their engravings, respecting that part of thecountry, in the former volume of tne TableBook, it is intended to add like abstracts o1
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