January 26, 1781
Posted by sydney on Jan 26th, 1781
My Heliotrope, which is J. Carpenter’s workshop, shows plainly that the days are lengthened considerably: for on the shortest day the shades of my two old chimneys fall exactly in the middle of the great window of that edifice at half an hour after two P.M., but now they are sifted into the quickset hedge, many yards to the S.E.