October 5

Posted by sydney on Oct 5th, 2008
  • 1791: October 5, 1791 – Arrived off the isle of Wight the Earl Fitzwilliams Captn Dundas from Madras.  Charles Etty sailed in this India man as second mate about the 10th of March, 1790.  [later note]  Poor Charles Etty did not come home in the Earl Fitzwilliams, having unfortunately broke his leg at Madras the evening before the ship sailed for Europe.
  • 1790: October 5, 1790 – Cut 3 bunches of grapes: they were just eatable.
  • 1789: October 5, 1789 – Gathered in Chaumontel pears: tied endive.  Mr Ben, & Mrs Ben White left us.
  • 1787: October 5, 1787 – Bror Ben & wife came. Put my fine hyacinths into a bed, that were taken-up in the summer. Put also some good tulips, & striped crocus’s from Bro: Thos’s garden into beds.
  • 1783: October 5, 1783 – In the High-wood, under the thick trees, & among the dead leaves, where there was no grass, we found a large circle of Fungi of the Agaric kind, which included many beeches within its ring.  Such circles are often seen on  turf, but not usually in covert.  We found a species of Agaric in the high wood of a very grotesque shape, with the laminae turned outward, & the cap within formed into a funnel containing a good quantity of water.
  • 1781: October 5, 1781 – No h: martins, nor swallows in the villages, nor sand-martins at the pit on Short-heath.  The white-sand in the pit above, observed thro’ a microscope, appears more sharp, & angular than the yellow sand of the forest.  Gathered in the nonparels, & royal russets.  Much gossamer flying.
  • 1778: October 5, 1778 – Whitings in season still.  Many martins, & some swallows hover about the cliffs near Lewes.
  • 1776: October 5, 1776 – Black snails are more sluggish than in the summer; but in sight all day at this season of the year.  Saw one hornet.
  • 1775: October 5, 1775 – Here & there a straggling swallow.  Curlews clamor.
  • 1774: October 5, 1774 – Mr Yalden houses barley.  No hirundines appear all this day, though the weather is so fine, & the air full of insects.
  • 1771: October 5, 1771 – White frost, grey, & clouds.  Ashen leaves begin to fall.
  • 1770: October 5, 1770 – Crossbills, loxiae curvirostrae among Mrs Snooke’s Scotch pines.
  • 1768: October 5, 1768 – Rooks carry off ye nuts from ye wall-nut trees.

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