December 17
Posted by sydney on Dec 17th, 2008
- 1791: December 17, 1791 – Hard frost, very white, boys slide. Snipes come up from the forest along the meads by the sides of the stream. Hardly here & there a woodcock to be seen.
- 1785: December 17, 1785 – Antirrhinum cymbalaria thrives still, & is in full bloom, & will so continue ’till severe frosts take place. Planted several firs from S. Lambeth & several seedlings for the Helleborus foetidus.
- 1781: December 17, 1781 – Heard’s well is now dry: it is of a vast depth.
- 1780: December 17, 1780 – My well has risen lately, notwithstanding the long dry season.
- 1775: December 17, 1775 – People recover from the epidemic disorder.
- 1774: December 17, 1774 – Mrs Snooke’s tortoise, after it had been buried more than a month, came forth & wandered round the garden in a disconsolate state, not knowing where to fix on a spot for it’s retreat.
- 1773: December 17, 1773 – Chaffinches– many cocks among them. Black rabbits are pretty common the Chilgrove warren. The parish-well in Findon-village is 200 feet-deep: at Moontham on the down the well is full 350 feet. Mr Wood’s well at Chilgrove is 156 feet deep; & yet in some very wet seasons is brimfull: his cellars are some times full.
- 1770: December 17, 1770 – Young lambs begin to fall on the sands round the forest.
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