November 14

Posted by sydney on Nov 14th, 2008
  • 1787: November 14, 1787 – The late hard winters killed the extreamities of my wall-nut trees, so that they have borne no fruit since: but the same severe seasons killed many of the fyfield wall-nut trees down to the ground.
  • 1786: November 14, 1786 – Boys slide on the Ice!  Flocks of hen-chaffinches are seen.
  • 1784: November 14, 1784 – No acorns, & very few beech-mast.  No beech-mast last year, but acorns  innumerable.
  • 1783: November 14, 1783 – Mr Mulso’s grapes at his prebendal-house are in paper bags: but the daws descend from the Cathedral, break open the bags, & eat the fruit.  Looked sharply for house-martins along the chalk-cliff at Wharel, but none appeared.  On Novr 3rd 1782: I saw several at that place.
  • 1782: November 14, 1782 – Lord Howe arrived at Portsmouth with 16 men of war.  He was absent just nine weeks.  If a frost happens, even when the ground is considerably dry, as soon as a thaw takes place, the paths & fields are all in a batter.  Country people say that the frost draws moisture.  But the true philosophy is, that the steam & vaours continually ascending from the earth, are bound-in by the frost, & not suffered to escape, ’till released by the thaw.  No wonder then that the surface is all in a float; since the quntity of moisture by evaporation that arises daily from every acre of ground is astonishing.  Dr Watson, by experiment, found it to be from 1600 to 1900 gallons in 12 hours, according to the degree of heat in the earth, & the quantity of rain new fallen.– See Watson’s Chem. essays: Vol. 3 p. 55. 56
  • 1777: November 14, 1777 – Thatched roofs smoke in the sun: when this appearance happens rain seldom ensues that day.  This morning they send-up vast volumes of reek.
  • 1775: November 14, 1775 – Saw yesterday a considerable flock of gulls flying over the hanger to the S.W.  Gulls very seldom appear in this district; except sometimes on the forest ponds.  * When horses, cows, sheep, deer, &c. feed in the wind, & rain, they always keep their heads down the wind, & their tails to the weather; but birds always perch, & chuse to fly, with their heads to the weather to prevent the winds from ruffling their feathers, & the cold & wet from penetrating their skins.
  • 1774: November 14, 1774 – Frost, sun.
  • 1773: November 14, 1773 – Green plovers now appear in small companies on the uplands.  They flie high and make a whistling.  They do not breed in these parts.
  • 1771: November 14, 1771 – An epidemic disease among the dogs in Sussex, which proves fatal to many.  They pine away, & die moping.
  • 1770: November 14, 1770 – Bee on the asters.

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