The Natural History of Selborne

Tubbed half an hog, weighing 8 score: put half a bush. of salt, & two ounces of salt petre.  The pork was well trod into the tub, & nicely stowed.

Rover sprung two brace of pheasants in the long coppice.

Several slow-worms found under the bottom of an old hay-rick in a torpid state, but not without some motion.

Snow still lies a yard deep at Stair’s hill.

Salt-fish proves good.  The Creeper, certhia familiaris, appears in my orchard, & runs up the trees like a mouse.  Golden-crowned wren is also seen.

Dan Wheeler plants his field with beans.

Bror Thomas came from Fyfield.

Received from London a quarter of an hundred of Salt fish.

Some thaws.  Load of straw brought in.

The dry summer killed the new planted Sycamore on the plestor.