September 30
Posted by sydney on Sep 30th, 2008
- 1792: September 30, 1792 – There is a remarkable hill on the downs near Lewes in Susses, known by the name of Mount Carburn, which over-looks that town, & affords a most engaging prospect of all the country round, besides several views of the sea. On the very summit of this exalted promontory, & amidst the trenched of its Danish camp, there haunts a species of wild Bee, making it’s nest in the chalk soil. When people approach the place, these insects begin to be alarmed, & with a sharp & hotile sound dash, & strike round the heads & faces of intruders. I have often been interrupted myself while contemplating the grandeur of the scenery around me, & have thought myself in danger of being stung:– and have heard my Brother Benjamin say, that he & his daughter Rebecca were driven from the spot by the fierce menaces of these angry insects. In old days Mr Hay of Glynd Bourn, the Author of Deformity, & other works, wrote a loco-descriptive poem on the beauties of Mount Carburn.
- 1790: September 30, 1790 – Cut 81 cucumbers. On this day Mrs Brown was brought to bed at Stamford of twins, making my nephews & nieces 58 in number. The night following this poor, dear woman dyed, leaving behind her nine young children.
- 1788: September 30, 1788 – Gathered such of the Cadillac pears, as could readily be reached by ladders. Thomas says there are 13 bushels on my only tree.
- 1785: September 30, 1785 – Will Tanner thinks he saw in the high wood marks where a wood-cock had been boring. Mr Barker, who rode this day to Rake, Rogate, & Furley-hill, saw much grass, & clover cut, & cutting. Some barley out.
- 1783: September 30, 1783 – Lovely weather, red even. True Michaelmas summer.
- 1782: September 30, 1782 – Many wasps at Lydon in Rutland, tho’ none in the great heats of autumn 1781. So there is some mystery in their breeding that we do not understand. * At the autumnal aequinox, the evenings are remarkably dark, because the sun at that time sets more in a right angle to the horizon, than at any other season. But of late these uncomfortable glooms have been much softened by frequent N. Auroras. This circumstance of autumnal darkness did not escape the poet of nature: who says,
“Now black, & deep the night begins to fall,/A shade immense. Sunk in the quenching gloom/Magnificent & vast are heaven & earth/Order confounded lies; all beauty void;/Distinction lost; & gay variety/One universal blot: such the fair powerOf light, to kindle, & create the whole.”
Thompson’s Autumn - 1781: September 30, 1781 – Men put-up their hogs to fat. House-flies muscae domesticae, now croud about the fire-place, run on hearths, & sport in the chimney-corner.
- 1774: September 30, 1774 – Rooks begin to frequent the wall-nut & carry-off the fruit.
- 1773: September 30, 1773 – Some barley abroad that has been cut a month. Earwigs cast their skins & come forth white. 10 or 12 ring-ouzels appear on their autumn migration round Noar hill. Martins are seldom seen at any distance from neighbourhoods. They feed over waters or under the shelter of an hanging wood. Swallows often hawk about on naked downs & fields, even in very windy seasons at a great distance from houses.
- 1769: September 30, 1769 – The ring-ouzels, merulae torquatae, are most punctual about their migration, & appear again in a considerable flock.
- 1768: September 30, 1768 – Stares flock at Chilgrove. Oedicnemus does not flock yet.
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