August 24
Posted by sydney on Aug 24th, 2008
- 1792: August 24, 1792 – John Berriman’s hops at the end of the Foredown very fine.
- 1791: August 24, 1791 – Gathered kidney-beans, scarlet. Cut 80 cucumbers.
- 1789: August 24, 1789 – A fern-owl sits about on my field walks.
- 1788: August 24, 1788 – A stag, which has haunted Hartley wood the summer thro’ was roused by a man that was mowing oats just at the back of village. Several young persons purused him with guns, & happening to rouse him again on the side of Nore hill, shot at him; & then collecting some hounds from Emshot, & Hawkley, they drove him to a large wood in the parish of Westmeon, where they lost him, & called-off their dogs.
- 1787: August 24, 1787 – Nep. Ben White left us.
- 1784: August 24, 1784 – White turnip-radishes mild, & good, & large.
- 1783: August 24, 1783 – Paid for four wasps-nests. On this day the Duke of Kingstone India man, outward bound, Captain Nutt, was burnt at sea off the island of Ceylon. Mr Charles Etty, one of the mates, was wonderfully saved, tho’ he could not swim an inch, by clinging to a yard-arm that had been flung over board; by which he was kept above water about an hour & 1/4, ’till he was taken up by a boat, & carryed, naked as he was, aboard the Vansittart India-man Captain Agnew, who treated him with great humanity, & landed him in a few days at Madras. This ship, cargoe, & more than 70 lives were lost by the carelessness of a mate in drawing rum, who permitted the candle to catch the spirits; so that the whole vessel was in flames at once, without any chance of extinguishing them. She burnt about four hours, & then blew up: so that nothing was saved except what cloaths some had on their backs. She had soldiers aboard, & some passengers, & a few women, & children. Potatoes very fine, tho’ the ground has scarce ever been moistened since they were planted. They were also very good last year, tho’ the summer was mostly wet & cold. Fern-owl glances, & darts about in my garden in pursuit of phalaenae, with inconceivable swiftness.
- 1782: August 24, 1782 – Newton great pond runs over.
- 1781: August 24, 1781 – Tho’ white butterflies abound, & lay many eggs on the cabbages; yet thro’ over-heat, & want of moisture, they do not hatch and turn to palmers; but dry & shrivel to nothing. One swift still frequents the eaves of the church; & moreover has, I discover, two young nearly fledged, which show their white chins at the mouth of the crevice. This incident of so late a brood of swifts is an exception to the whole of my observations ever since I have bestowed any attention on that species of hirundines!
- 1775: August 24, 1775 – Wasps abound, & destroy the fruit. Clouds about. Worms copulate.
- 1773: August 24, 1773 – Peaches & nectarines redden. China-asters begin to blow.
- 1772: August 24, 1772 – Trench more celeri. Sowed spinage. Hops suffer from the wind. Planted small cabbages.
- 1768: August 24, 1768 – Much wheat bound up in the afternoon. Goldfinch sings. Oats are cutting.
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