Comments for The Natural History of Selborne http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com journals of Gilbert White Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:18:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 Comment on June 12, 1791 by Via Negativa http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/1791/06/12/june-12-1791/#comment-704 Via Negativa Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:11:08 +0000 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/1791/06/12/june-12-1791/#comment-704 [...] Gilbert White Clouds, hail, shower, gleams. Sharp air, & fire in the parlor. —- [...] […] Gilbert White Clouds, hail, shower, gleams. Sharp air, & fire in the parlor. —- […]

]]> Comment on June 10 by The Natural History of Selborne » Blog Archive » June 11 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/06/10/june-10/#comment-696 The Natural History of Selborne » Blog Archive » June 11 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:22:02 +0000 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/06/10/june-10/#comment-696 [...] June 11 Posted by sydney on Jun 11th, 2008 1793: June 11, 1793 – A man brought me a large plate of straw-berries, which were crude, & not near ripe.  The ground all as hard as iron: we can sow nothing nor plant out. 1792: June 11, 1792 – In Alton Went, & dined with my Brother Benjamin White at Mareland, to which he & his wife were come down for two or three days.  We found the house roomy, & good, & abounding with conveniences: the out-door accommodations are also in great abundance, such as a larder, pantry, dairy, laundry, pigeon-house, & good stables.  The view from the back front is elegant, commanding sloping meadows thro’ which runs the Wey (the stream  from Alton to Farnham) meandering in beautiful curves, & shewing a rippling fall occasioned by a tumbling bay formed by Mr. Sainesbury, who also widened the current.  The murmur of this water-fall is heard from the windows.  Behind the house next the turnpike are three good ponds, & round the extensive outlet a variety of pleasant gravel walks.  Across the meadows the view is bounded by the Holt: but up & down the valley the prospect is diversifyed, & engaging.  In short Mareland is a very fine situation, & a very pleasing Gentleman’s seat.  I was much amused with the number of Hirundines to be seen from the windows: for besides the several martins and swallows belonging to the house, many Swifts from Farnham range up & down the vale; & what struck me most were forty or firty bank-martins, from the heaths, & sand-hills below, which follow the stream up the meadows, & were the whole day long busied in catching the several sorts of Ephemerae which at this season swarm in the neighbourhood of the waters.  The stream below the house abounds with trouts.  Nine fine coach-horses were burnt in a stable at Alresford. 1791: June 11, 1791 – Male glow-worms, attracted by the light of the candles, come into the parlor.  The distant hills look very blue.  There was rain on Sunday on many sides of us, to the S. the S.E. & the N.W. at Alton & Odiham a fine shower, & at Emsworth, & at Newbury: & as near us as Kingsley.  No may chafers this year with us. 1789: June 11, 1789 – Straw-berries cryed about. 1788: June 11, 1788 – Some good oats about S. Lambeth. 1787: June 11, 1787 – Straw-berries, scarlet, cryed about.  Straw-berries dry, & tasteless.  Quail calls in the field next to the garden. 1786: June 11, 1786 – In Richd Bulter’s garden there is a Fly-catcher’s nest built in a very peculiar manner, being placed on a shelf that is fixed against the wall of an out-house, not five feet from the ground;  & behind the head of an old rake lying on the shelf.  On the same spot a pair of the same birds built last year; but as soon as there were young the nest was torn down by a cat. 1785: June 11, 1785 – My potatoes do but just sprout above ground.  Sweet Williams blow.  When the hen fly-catcher sits on her eggs, the cock feeds her with great assiduity, even on ’till past nine in the evening. 1783: June 11, 1783 – Soft rain all days.  Snails come forth in troops.  Mr. Beeke came from Oxford. 1782: June 11, 1782 – Standard honey-suckles, having lost their first shoots by the frosts, will produce little bloom this summer. 1780: June 11, 1780 – Field-pease look well.  All the young rooks ave not left their nest-trees.  Glow-worms appear. 1778: June 11, 1778 – Cut my St foin, the 11th crop.  Weeds obtain much, & the crop grows thinner every year. 1777: June 11, 1777 – From the egg-shells flung-out it appears that young martins are hatched in a nest built last year.  The curcumstance of the ready-built nest makes the brood so much the forwarder. 1775: June 11, 1775 – The autumn-sown brown lettuces, which stood the winter, still continue good.  The dry season last friday morning had lasted just 3 months:  the 9, 10, & 11 of March were very wet. 1773: June 11, 1773 – Elder begins to blow.  When the elder blows-out the summer is at its height. 1770: June 11, 1770 – Hinds on Bagshot-heath. 1769: June 11, 1769 – Great species of bat appears; it flies very high. The fern-own begins chattering just at three quarters after 8 o’clock at night. Note: Profuse apologies for missing yesterday; I'm on the road & couldn't get to a computer. The June 10 entries can be seen here. [...] […] June 11 Posted by sydney on Jun 11th, 2008 1793: June 11, 1793 – A man brought me a large plate of straw-berries, which were crude, & not near ripe.  The ground all as hard as iron: we can sow nothing nor plant out. 1792: June 11, 1792 – In Alton Went, & dined with my Brother Benjamin White at Mareland, to which he & his wife were come down for two or three days.  We found the house roomy, & good, & abounding with conveniences: the out-door accommodations are also in great abundance, such as a larder, pantry, dairy, laundry, pigeon-house, & good stables.  The view from the back front is elegant, commanding sloping meadows thro’ which runs the Wey (the stream  from Alton to Farnham) meandering in beautiful curves, & shewing a rippling fall occasioned by a tumbling bay formed by Mr. Sainesbury, who also widened the current.  The murmur of this water-fall is heard from the windows.  Behind the house next the turnpike are three good ponds, & round the extensive outlet a variety of pleasant gravel walks.  Across the meadows the view is bounded by the Holt: but up & down the valley the prospect is diversifyed, & engaging.  In short Mareland is a very fine situation, & a very pleasing Gentleman’s seat.  I was much amused with the number of Hirundines to be seen from the windows: for besides the several martins and swallows belonging to the house, many Swifts from Farnham range up & down the vale; & what struck me most were forty or firty bank-martins, from the heaths, & sand-hills below, which follow the stream up the meadows, & were the whole day long busied in catching the several sorts of Ephemerae which at this season swarm in the neighbourhood of the waters.  The stream below the house abounds with trouts.  Nine fine coach-horses were burnt in a stable at Alresford. 1791: June 11, 1791 – Male glow-worms, attracted by the light of the candles, come into the parlor.  The distant hills look very blue.  There was rain on Sunday on many sides of us, to the S. the S.E. & the N.W. at Alton & Odiham a fine shower, & at Emsworth, & at Newbury: & as near us as Kingsley.  No may chafers this year with us. 1789: June 11, 1789 – Straw-berries cryed about. 1788: June 11, 1788 – Some good oats about S. Lambeth. 1787: June 11, 1787 – Straw-berries, scarlet, cryed about.  Straw-berries dry, & tasteless.  Quail calls in the field next to the garden. 1786: June 11, 1786 – In Richd Bulter’s garden there is a Fly-catcher’s nest built in a very peculiar manner, being placed on a shelf that is fixed against the wall of an out-house, not five feet from the ground;  & behind the head of an old rake lying on the shelf.  On the same spot a pair of the same birds built last year; but as soon as there were young the nest was torn down by a cat. 1785: June 11, 1785 – My potatoes do but just sprout above ground.  Sweet Williams blow.  When the hen fly-catcher sits on her eggs, the cock feeds her with great assiduity, even on ’till past nine in the evening. 1783: June 11, 1783 – Soft rain all days.  Snails come forth in troops.  Mr. Beeke came from Oxford. 1782: June 11, 1782 – Standard honey-suckles, having lost their first shoots by the frosts, will produce little bloom this summer. 1780: June 11, 1780 – Field-pease look well.  All the young rooks ave not left their nest-trees.  Glow-worms appear. 1778: June 11, 1778 – Cut my St foin, the 11th crop.  Weeds obtain much, & the crop grows thinner every year. 1777: June 11, 1777 – From the egg-shells flung-out it appears that young martins are hatched in a nest built last year.  The curcumstance of the ready-built nest makes the brood so much the forwarder. 1775: June 11, 1775 – The autumn-sown brown lettuces, which stood the winter, still continue good.  The dry season last friday morning had lasted just 3 months:  the 9, 10, & 11 of March were very wet. 1773: June 11, 1773 – Elder begins to blow.  When the elder blows-out the summer is at its height. 1770: June 11, 1770 – Hinds on Bagshot-heath. 1769: June 11, 1769 – Great species of bat appears; it flies very high. The fern-own begins chattering just at three quarters after 8 o’clock at night. Note: Profuse apologies for missing yesterday; I’m on the road & couldn’t get to a computer. The June 10 entries can be seen here. […]

]]> Comment on Amen! by sydney http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/05/28/amen/#comment-685 sydney Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:35:09 +0000 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/05/28/amen/#comment-685 Yes, that's something that's been bugging me too-- I left off tagging about halfway through the year because the categories were so disorganized-- neither general enough nor specific enough. Do you have any suggestions for categories? Per species? Or broader? Yes, that’s something that’s been bugging me too– I left off tagging about halfway through the year because the categories were so disorganized– neither general enough nor specific enough. Do you have any suggestions for categories? Per species? Or broader?

]]> Comment on August 24, 1783 by The Natural History of Selborne » Blog Archive » May 31 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/1783/08/24/august-24-1783/#comment-648 The Natural History of Selborne » Blog Archive » May 31 Sat, 31 May 2008 09:14:16 +0000 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/1783/08/24/august-24-1783/#comment-648 [...] back to Selborne. Three years after his first posting on the Vansittart he encountered her again in dramatic circumstances, being rescued by her from a shipwreck. The Vansittart herself was wrecked on a shoal in [...] […] back to Selborne. Three years after his first posting on the Vansittart he encountered her again in dramatic circumstances, being rescued by her from a shipwreck. The Vansittart herself was wrecked on a shoal in […]

]]> Comment on Amen! by Dave http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/05/28/amen/#comment-647 Dave Sat, 31 May 2008 01:15:32 +0000 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/05/28/amen/#comment-647 I've been thinking for a while that you ought to be adding more categories and/or tags to posts, to allow for better searching (and also bring the site a lot more visitors). I’ve been thinking for a while that you ought to be adding more categories and/or tags to posts, to allow for better searching (and also bring the site a lot more visitors).

]]> Comment on May 28 by sydney http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/05/28/may-28-2/#comment-635 sydney Thu, 29 May 2008 14:52:28 +0000 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/05/28/may-28-2/#comment-635 My pleasure! I don't know if I'll serve up a panoply.. more like a smattering... it's incredible how deeply one can get sucked into googling things like 'oak barking'! My pleasure! I don’t know if I’ll serve up a panoply.. more like a smattering… it’s incredible how deeply one can get sucked into googling things like ‘oak barking’!

]]> Comment on May 28 by Frank Key http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/05/28/may-28-2/#comment-634 Frank Key Thu, 29 May 2008 11:51:47 +0000 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/05/28/may-28-2/#comment-634 I subscribed by RSS to this as soon as I discovered it and have been meaning to thank you ever since. The addition of a vast panoply of annotations and footnotes would be marvellous, so I am going to thank you for those in advance! I subscribed by RSS to this as soon as I discovered it and have been meaning to thank you ever since.

The addition of a vast panoply of annotations and footnotes would be marvellous, so I am going to thank you for those in advance!

]]> Comment on Map of Selborne by The Natural History of Selborne » Blog Archive » Amen! http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/map-of-selborne/#comment-630 The Natural History of Selborne » Blog Archive » Amen! Wed, 28 May 2008 11:55:17 +0000 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/map-of-selborne/#comment-630 [...] Map of Selborne [...] […] Map of Selborne […]

]]> Comment on April 18 by Heraclitean Fire » Links http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/04/18/april-18/#comment-463 Heraclitean Fire » Links Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:34:40 +0000 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/04/18/april-18/#comment-463 [...] The Natural History of Selborne » Blog Archive » April 18 Nightingale song. I actually think there are better ’singers’ than the nightingale - like the Eurasian blackbird - but it’s the volume (which you’ll have to take my word for) and the purity and sweetness of some of the notes. (tags: nightingale birdsong blogs beautiful) | 19 April 2008 at 9:34 am | RSS « Napowrimo #18: the Buffalo [...] […] The Natural History of Selborne » Blog Archive » April 18 Nightingale song. I actually think there are better ’singers’ than the nightingale - like the Eurasian blackbird - but it’s the volume (which you’ll have to take my word for) and the purity and sweetness of some of the notes. (tags: nightingale birdsong blogs beautiful) | 19 April 2008 at 9:34 am | RSS « Napowrimo #18: the Buffalo […]

]]> Comment on April 14 by sydney http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/04/14/april-14/#comment-454 sydney Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:26:08 +0000 http://naturalhistoryofselborne.com/2008/04/14/april-14/#comment-454 Corrected! Corrected!

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