November 4
Posted by sydney on Nov 4th, 2008
- 1791: November 4, 1791 – Grey, gleams. Snow gone.
- 1790: November 4, 1790 – Green wheat comes up well. Stewed some trufles: the flavour of their juice very fine, but the roots hard, & gritty. They were boiled in water, then sliced, & stewed in gravy.
- 1789: November 4, 1789 – The wind on Saturday last occasioned much damage among the shipping in the river, & on the E. coast.
- 1784: November 4, 1784 – Timothy out. Great meteor.
- 1783: November 4, 1783 – The stream at Fyfield is dry. My brother Henry’s crops of trufles have failed for two or three years past. He supposed they may have been devoured by large broods of turkies that have ranged much about his home-fields, & little groves.
- 1782: November 4, 1782 – I watched the S.E. end of the hanger, hoping to see some house-martins, as they sometimes appear about this day but was disappointed.
- 1781: November 4, 1781 – The wintry & huge constellation, Orion, begins now to make his appearance in the evening, exhibiting his enormous figure in the E. Tho’ my grapes ripen in the most disadvantageous years: yet from the concurring circumstances of a hot summer, & a failure of wasps, I think my crop was never so delicate before, nor ever supplyed my table for so long.
- 1780: November 4, 1780 – Planted out some slips of red pinks: & set some rows of Tulips.
- 1778: November 4, 1778 – Full moon. Tit-mice creep into the martin’s nests, & probably eat the pupae of the hippoboscae hirundinis.
- 1777: November 4, 1777 – 21 house-martins appeared playing about under the hanger. The air was full of insects. Others that saw the martins in an other part of the hanger say there were more than 150! This was a mistake. Note: no martins have been observed since Oct. 7th ’til this day, when more than 20 were playing about & catching their food over my fields, & along the side of the hanger. It is remarkable that tho’ this species of Hirundines usually withdraws pretty early in Oct. yet a flight has for many years been seen again for one day on or about the 4th of Novr. Father it is worthy of notice, that when the Thermr rises above 50, the bat awakens, & comes forth to feed of an evening in every winter-month. These circumstances favour the notion of a torpid state in birds; & are against the migration of swallows in this kingdom.
- 1776: November 4, 1776 – The trufle-hunter was here this morning: he did not take more than half a pound, & those were small.
- 1774: November 4, 1774 – Grapes now delicate, & in good plenty: they had never ripened, had not Octr proved a lovely month. The rallus porzana, or spotted water-rail, a rare bird, was shot in the sedge of Bean’s pond. This was the first of the sort that ever I hear-of in these parts. I sent it to London to be stuffed & preserved. A beautiful bird.
- 1773: November 4, 1773 – Stock-dove, or wood-pigeon appears. Redwing appears.
- 1772: November 4, 1772 – Saw one martin.
- 1771: November 4, 1771 – Saw three house swallows flying briskly at Newhaven at the mouth of the Lewes river!!
- 1769: November 4, 1769 – Vast storm broke some boughs, & tore thatch.
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