September 2
Posted by sydney on Sep 2nd, 2008
- 1792: September 2, 1792 – The well at Temple is 77 feet deep: 60 to the water, & seventeen afterwards. My well measures only 63 feet to the bottom.
Goleigh well to the water is 55 1/2 yrds /166 feet; to the bottom 57 1/2 yrds / 172 1/2 feet; Heards well to the water is 70 2/3 yrds / 212 feet; to the bottom 83 1/3 yrds / 250 feet.
A stone was 4 1/2 seconds falling to the bottom of Heards well; & 4 seconds to the water of Goleigh. The wells were measured accurately by the Revd. Edumund White on the 25th of August 1792, in the midst of a very wet summer. Deep, & tremendous as is the well at Heards, John Gillman, an Ideot, fell to the bottom of it twice in one morning; & was taken out alive, & survived the strange accident many years. Only Goleigh & Heards wells were measured by Mr E. White. - 1791: September 2, 1791 – Cut 62 cucumbers. Holt White left us, & went to Newton.
- 1789: September 2, 1789 – Bees feed on the plums, & the mellow goose-berries. They often devour the peaches, & nectarines.
- 1788: September 2, 1788 – J. Hale’s crop of hops under the S. corner of the hanger is prodigious: many hills together produce a bushel each, some two, & some three! Mr White of Newton cuts some Saint foin a second time. Nep. Ben came from London. Barley, & seed-clover are housed.
- 1783: September 2, 1783 – Nectarine, one of the new trees, the fruit delicate. Two of the new peach, & Nect. Trees this year are distempered, & one barren: one nect: has a crop of well-flavoured fruit.
- 1782: September 2, 1782 – Contrary to all rule the wheat this year is heavy, & the straw short: last year, tho’ so much heat prevailed, the wheat was light & the straw was long.
- 1779: September 2, 1779 – Partridges innumberable. Barley-harvest finished here.
- 1776: September 2, 1776 – Vast shower with hail. Turned the horses into the great mead. Much grass. A part of the orchard, where I laid the earth which came out of the garden, was sown in April with rye-grass, & hop trefoil, & has been mown already three times.
- 1775: September 2, 1775 – Gathered first grapes: they look well; & are large; but not highly flavoured yet. Sad hop-picking: a large crop in this district. Barley in the suds.
- 1774: September 2, 1774 – Hop-picking begins at Faringdon. Wasps abound.
- 1773: September 2, 1773 – Some perennial asters begin to blow. Grapes rather small as yet. Several bunches begin to turn.
- 1772: September 3, 1772 – Hibiscus syriacus. Grapes begin to change colour. Some wheat still out. The weather bad for hop-picking.
- 1771: September 2, 1771 – Corn is housed. Swallows feed their young flying.
- 1769: September 2, 1769 – Wheat harvest finished. A comet, having a tail about six degrees in length, appears nightly in the constellation of Aries, between the 24, 29, & 51 stars of that constellation in the English catalogue.
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