Farmer Knight’s wheat of a beautiful colour. Children play at hop-scotch. Rain in Jan. 4 inc. 48h. I now see, that after the greatest droughts have exhausted the wells, & streams, & ponds, four or five inches of rain will completely replenish them.
Bantam-hens make a pleasant little note, expressive of a propensity towards laying. Fog so deep that we could not see the alcove in the garden.
Now the ice is melted on Hartley-park pond, many dead fish come floating ashore, which were stifled under the ice for want of air.
A swan came flying up the Lythe, & without regarding objects before it, dashed itself against Dorton-house, & fell down stunned. It recovered, & was sold the miller at Hawkley.
Now the rope is lengthened my well furnishes me with water.
Snow melts very fast. The frost, where a grave was dug, appeared to have ent’red the ground about 12 inches.
The snow drifted in thro’ the tiling now melts, & floats the ceiling. A Gooseander & a Dun diver, a drake and a duck of the same species, Mergus Merganser, were brought me this morning. They are beautiful birds, never to be seen in the South but in hard frosts: they were shot on the stream at Hedleigh.
Deep snow: snow drifted through every crevice. Swift thaw. Snow that had been driven in now melts & drips thro’ the garret-ceiling.
Thermr 8; at South Lambeth 2 1/2. This frost, as frosts usually do, went-off soon after the Thermr was at the lowest.
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