The Natural History of Selborne

Clouds flye different ways. Distant thunder.

Field crickets begin their shrilling summer sound.  My horses began to be turned-out a nights.

The grass-hopper lark whispers in the night.

Swallows begin to collect dirt from the road, & to carry it into chimneys for the business of nidification.

Sun, fine day, showers.  Most vivid rainbow.

The scenes round the village are beautifully diversifyed by the bloom of the pear-trees, plums, & cherries.  A great flood on the Thames in consequence of the rain on friday night.