The Natural History of Selborne

Last night the moon was midway between Mars & Venus: she is this evening just above, close above the former, at the seeming distance of two feet.

Things froze in the pantry.  Shallow snow: ground very hard.

Venus sheds again her silvery light on the walls of my chamber, &c. & shadows very strongly.

Venus shadows very strongly, showing the bars of the windows on the floors & walls.

Knee-holly, or butcher’s bloom, blows.

The wheatfields so hard that they carry a waggon & horses.

Water-cresses come in.  The winter-spring, or lavant, runs from the hanger into gracious street.

On this day Sr G. Rodney, after having been wind-bound for several weeks, sailed to the W. Indies from Torbay.

The earth is well-drenched; streams run; & torrents fall from the fields into the hollow lanes.

The wind blowed-down the rain-measurer.  Wells rise very fast, & are now up to their usual pitch.