The Natural History of Selborne

Tortoise comes out in the sun about noon, but soon returns to his work of digging a hole to retire into.

Few petrifacations about Ringmer & Lewes.  Ringmer soil not clay at top but brick-loam: bears good apples, pears, & grapes.  Clay under, which holds water like a dish.  The trees are mostly elms.

Whitings in high season: herrings going out.

Phyteuma orbicularis in bloom on the downs S. of Lewes.

Saw three house swallows flying briskly at Newhaven at the mouth of the Lewes river!!

An imperfect rainbow on the fog; a more vivid one on the dewy grass.  Grey crows, Cornix cinerea frugilega, near South Wick.  Mrs Snooke’s tortoise begins to scrape an hole in the ground in order for laying up.