The Natural History of Selborne

Bror. Tho. Mr & Mrs Ben White, & Nep. Thos Holt White came from Fyfield.

21 cocks of hay lying still in Baker’s hill.

Snow lies on the hay-cocks in Baker’s hill!

Saw seven ring-ouzels on the old hawthorns at Clay’s barn.  Part of the hay in Baker’s-hill was cocked & housed: it smells well, & is not so much damaged as might have been expected.

Water in the well very deep.

Dug up my potatoes, a poor crop: many of them are rotten.

My well is risen six or seven yards.

Timothy the tortoise lies in the laurel-hedge, but is not buried.

Much hay-making all the way.  Hay housing at Alton.

Timothy Turner finished the mowing of Bakers-hill.