The Natural History of Selborne

Snow covers the ground, snow shoe deep.

Grey, gleams.  Snow gone.

The late rains have not had any influence yet on my well-water, which is very low, & foul.  Snow on the Sussex downs.

The hermitage capped with snow.

Boys slide on the Ice!  Flocks of hen-chaffinches are seen.

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

Deep snow still. Snow drifts on the down, & fills up the path which we shoveled.

Finished shovelling the path to Newton. Dame Loe came to help.

Shoveled out the bostal.  Snow very deep still.

Much snow in the night.  Vast snow.  Snow 16 inches deep on my grass-plot about 12 inches at an average.  Farmer Hoar had 41 sheep buried in snow.  No such snow since Jan. 1776.  In some places much drifted.