October 22
Posted by sydney on Oct 22nd, 2008
- 2010: Welcome – This project is now finished, and contains a fairly complete transcription of forty years of the personal journals of Gilbert White. If you enjoy them, be sure to read his book, The Natural History of Selborne – you can download it for free from Project Gutenberg.
If you wish to see the entries for a particular day, use the search box in the upper right corner of this page. Months should be spelled out, and days entered as plain numerals, for instance, “September 14” if you want the aggregate for all years, or “November 1 1776” for a specific date.Enjoy! - 1791: October 22, 1791 – One young martin in one of Burbey’s nests, which the dams continue to feed. Gracious stream now runs a little.
- 1789: October 22, 1789 – Mended the planks of the zigzag. Bro. Tho. White sowed the naked part of the hanger with great quantities of hips, haws, sloes, & holly-berries. In May last he sowed a pound of furze seeds on the same naked space; many of which appear to have grown: & lately he sowed two pounds more. *added note: Decembr 1790. As fast as any of these seeds have sprouted, they have constantly been brouzed off, & bitten down by the sheep, which lie very hard on them, & will not suffer them to thrive.
- 1788: October 22, 1788 – Much wheat is sown. The fallows are very dry; & the roads as clean as in summer.
- 1786: October 22, 1786 – Bror. & Sister Benj. left us.
- 1785: October 22, 1785 – My well is risen six or seven yards.
- 1781: October 22, 1781 – Men continue to fetch peat from the forest.
- 1776: – The nuthatches are busy rapping with their bills about the wallnut trees: & as I find wall-nuts fallen down there, with holes picked in their shells; no doubt they were made by those birds.
- 1775: October 22, 1775 – My autumn crop of spinage this year runs much to seed.
- 1773: October 22, 1773 – Fog, rain, fog, fog. Saw several martins at Dorchester in Oxfordshire round the church. It is remarkable that the swallow kind appear full as late in the midland counties, as in the maritime: a circumstance this more favourable to hiding than to migration. As it proved these martins were the last that I saw.
- 1772: October 22, 1772 – This morning the young martins forsook their nest & were flying round the village. Grapes delicate, & plenty.
- 1768: October 22, 1768 – French-beans are planted in the hot-house at Hartley. Pines are still cutting.
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