October 21, 1775

Posted by sydney on Oct 21st, 1775

The storm on thursday night tore all the remaining flowers to pieces.  *With us the country people call coppices, or brush-wood, ris, or rice: now hris in Saxon signifies frondes, & is no doubt whence our provincial term originates.  Hraed hriz is frondes celeres: hence probably Red Rice, the name of a hunting-seat standing in the midst of a coppice at Andover.

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