November 29
Posted by sydney on Nov 29th, 2008
- 1792: November 29, 1792 – This dry weather enables men to bring in loads of turf, not much damaged: while scores of loads of peat lie rotting in the Forest.
- 1791: November 29, 1791 – Put a large cross on the hermitage. A trufle-hunter tryed my tall hedges, & found some bulbs of those peculiar plants, which have neither roots, nor branches, nor stems.
- 1789: November 29, 1789 – Housed 8 cords of beech billet, which had taken all the rains of the late wet summer, & autumn, & is therefore of course in but indifferent order.
- 1788: November 29, 1788 – A vast flock of hen chaffinches are to be seen in the fields along by the sides of Newton-lane, interspersed, I think, with a few bramblings, which being rare birds in these parts, probably attended the finches on their emigration. They feed in the stubbles on the seeds of knot-grass, the great support of small, hard-billed birds in the winter.
- 1785: November 29, 1785 – There was about this time, as the newspapers say, a vast flight of wood-cocks in Cornwall.
- 1780: November 29, 1780 – Rear Adm. Sr Samuel Hood sailed with 8 ships of the line.
- 1779: November 29, 1779 – Snow was halfshoe-deep on the hill. Distant lightening.
- 1775: November 29, 1775 – The grey crow, a bird of winter passage, appears. It is as rare at Selborne, as the carrion crow is in Sweden. This is only the third bird that I have seen in this district. They are common on the downs at Andover, & Winton. The air is unusually damp, with copious condensations on the walls, wainscot, looking-glasses, &c, of houses, in many places running in streams.
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