The Natural History of Selborne

The paths are dry & crisp.  Men house barley ’till between ten & eleven at night.  Pleasant starlight.

Lord Howe arrived in the straits of Gibraltar.

We make tarts, & puddings with the crude unripened grapes.  Gathered-in the Virgoleuse, & Chaumentelle pears, a good crop: somewhat has gnawn many of the former like wasps or hornets.

Sad weather for the barley.  Barley housed at Bramshot & other places, being green & damp, has heated violently, & endangered the firing of barns.  All the hops of this parish this year are carried to Wey-hill in two waggons: good crops require four or five.  Gathered two or three bunches of grapes: they have some colour, but are crude & sour.– By the evening being so light, there must be great N. Auroras.  Mr. Yalden finished mowing his barley.

Wood-cock returns, & is seen in the Hanger.  Young martins in the nest at little World-ham; probably Ward-le-ham.

Numbers of pheasants at Inne down-coppice.

Rain 78 in my garden, on the tower 59.