The Natural History of Selborne

A long-billed curlew has just been shot near the Priory.  We see now & then one in the very long frosts.  Two, I understand, were seen.

The dung & litter freeze under the horses in the stable.  The hares nibble off the buds of the espalier-pear-trees.

Cut my last year’s hay-rick.

The turnips, that are not stacked, are all frozen and spoiled.

The Thermomr at Totnes, in the county of Devon abroad this evening, was, I hear, at 6.

Snipes come up the stream.

Ice in chambers.  Hares frequent the garden & do much damage.

Vast snows in Cornwall for two days past.

Clouds put up their heads.

Small snow on the ground.  Mr Churton left us.