The Natural History of Selborne

Brother John sailed from Cadiz for England.

Ephemerae innumberable on the Alresford stream.  When the swifts play very low over the water they are feeding on emphemerae and phryganeae.

Vast fog, hot sun.  Thermotmr abroad in the shade 78.  John White arrived from Cadiz.

Thomas cut my St foin.

In Wilts.

Bror. John set-out on horse-back for Cadiz.  Polygonum bistorta. Colchicum autumnale in seed.  Ephemera and phrygeaneae abound on the stream.

Carduus nutans.  Digitalis purpurea.  Sheep shorn.

Bright, sweet afternoon.

St foin blows, & gets very tall.

Brisk wind all day which falls with the sun.

Apis longicornis. The long-horned bees bore their nests in the ground where it is trodden the hardest.