The Natural History of Selborne

Field-pease look well.  All the young rooks ave not left their nest-trees.  Glow-worms appear.

Fraxinells begin to blow.  Wheat-ears begin to shoot-out.

Hoed the quick-sets at the bottom of the hanger.

The limes show their bracteal leaves, & rudiments of blossoms.  Sweet Williams begin to blow.

Red valerian blows.  Terrible riots in London: & unpresidented burnings, & devastations by the mob.

The phalaena called the swift nighthawk appears.

Finished papering my great parlor.

Distant clouds, sultry, thunder-clouds.  Sulphurous smell in the air.  Sweet, even, small shower.  Strawberries blow well.  Medlar shows much bloom.  Honey-suckles blow.  Fern-owl chatter: chur-worm jars.  The tortoise shuns the intense heat by covering itself with dead grass; & does not eat ’til the afternoon.  Terrible storms in the Oxfordshire, & my Wilts.