September 28
Posted by sydney on Sep 27th, 2008
- 1792: September 27, 1792 – Strong, cold gale.
- 1790: September 27, 1790 – The innoculated at Hartley sicken.
- 1789: September 27, 1789 – A man brought me a land-rail or daker-hen, a bird so rare in this district, that we seldom see more than one or two in a season, & those only in autumn. This is deemed a bird of passage by all the writers; yet from it’s formation seems to be poorly qualifyed for migration; for its wings are short, & placed so forward, & out of the center of gravity, that it flies in a very heavy & embarrassed manner, with it’s legs hanging down; & can hardly be sprung a second time, as it runs very fast, & seems to depend more on the swiftness of it’s feet than on it’s flying. When we came to draw it, we found the entrails so soft & tender, that inappearance they might have been dressed like the ropes of an woodcock. The craw or crop was small & lank, containing a mucus; the gizzard thick & strong, & filled with many shell-snails, some whole, & many ground to pieces thro’ the attrition which is occasioned by the muscular force & motion of that intestine. We saw no gravels among the food: perhaps the shell-snails might perform the functions of gravels or pebbles, & might grind one another. Land-rails used to abound formerly, I remember, in the low, wet bean-fields of Xtian Malford in North Wilts; & in the meadows near Paradise-Gardens at Oxford, where I have often heard them cry Crex, Crex. The bird mentioned above weighed seven ounces & an half, was fat & tender, & in flavour like thesh of a woodcock. The liver was very large & delicate.
- 1785: September 27, 1785 – My well, notwithstanding the rains is very low still, so that we let out all the rope to draw a bucket of water.
- 1784: September 27, 1784 – Nep. Ben White left me: me stayed a few days.
- 1782: September 27, 1782 – Bro. Thomas White, his daughter, & two sons left Selborne.
- 1781: September 27, 1781 – Gathered-in Cadilliac-pears, dearlings, & royal russets.
- 1780: September 27, 1780 – Finished a Bostal, or sloping path up the hanger from the foot of the zigzag to the corner of the Wadden, in length 414 yards. A fine romantic walk, shady & beautiful. In digging along the hanger the labourers found many pyrites perfectly round, lying in the clay; & in the chalk below several large cornua Ammonis.
- 1779: September 27, 1779 – Gathered-in the pears. The Cardillac-tree bore five bushels. Apples are few; & the crop of grapes small.
- 1777: September 27, 1777 – Distant lightening. We had but little rain, only the skirts of the storm. The dry weather, which was of infinite service to the country after so wet a summer, might fairly be said to last eight weeks: three of which had no rain at all, & much sun-shine.
- 1775: September 27, 1775 – Gathered-in the royal russets, & knobbed russets. Tyed-up endive. *My Arundo donax, which I receied from Gibraltar, is grown this year eight or nine feet high: I therefore opened the head of one stalk to see what approaches it had made towards blowing after so hot a summer. When it was cut open we found a long series of leaves enfolded one within the other to a most minute degree, but not the least rudiments of fructification; so that the plant must have extended itself many feet before it could have attained to it’s full stature: and must have required many more weeks of hot weather before it could have brought any seeds to maturity.
- 1774: September 27, 1774 – Mr Yalden mows a field of barley. Much barley abroad.
- 1773: September 27, 1773 – Gathered the last nectarines: very good. Large aurora: very vivid in the S.W.
- 1771: September 27, 1771 – Black cap. Few martins over oak-hanger ponds. Woodlark whistles.
- 1770: September 27, 1770 – Gardens are torn to pieces, & great boughs off trees.
- 1768: September 27, 1768 – People are now housing corn after 27 days interruption.
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