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.
At the corner of my great parlor there is such a current of air that it has half killed a box-tree is nearly killed by the current of air; while a laurel in the same circumstance seems not to be affected at all. Note: This laurel continues to flourish; Octr 1782
Millers complain for want of water. At the end of the new parlor a box-tree is nearly killed by the current of air; while a laurel in the same circumstance seems not to be affected at all. from Novr 25 to Jan 18 there fell only 69 of rain, & snow! less than 3/4 of an inch.
The ground is as hard as a rock. The roads & fallows are dusty.
In the church-yard at Faringdon are two male-yew-trees, the largest of which measures 30 feet in girth.
Some snow on the ground. Vast halo round the moon.
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