The Natural History of Selborne

Dug up my potatoes, a poor crop: many of them are rotten.

My well is risen six or seven yards.

Timothy the tortoise lies in the laurel-hedge, but is not buried.

Much hay-making all the way.  Hay housing at Alton.

Timothy Turner finished the mowing of Bakers-hill.

Hay lies about in Berkshire & Oxforshire.

Grey & mild.

Barley abroad at Faringdon.

The grass cut the last week in Septr. all lies rotting.  My well begins to raise. It has been so low all this autumn as not to afford water sufficient for the occasions of the family.  Had it not been for the frequent rains, we should have been at a loss, when we wanted to wash or brew.

Mr S. Barker left us.