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diff --git a/1408-h/1408-h.htm b/1408-h/1408-h.htm index 7d13d67..8c850cc 100644 --- a/1408-h/1408-h.htm +++ b/1408-h/1408-h.htm @@ -1,15 +1,13 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" -"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> -<title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White</title> +<meta charset="utf-8"> +<title>The Natural History of Selborne | Project Gutenberg</title> -<style type="text/css"> +<style> -body { margin-left: 20%; - margin-right: 20%; +body { margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; text-align: justify; } h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 {text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-weight: @@ -86,121 +84,121 @@ a:hover {color:red} <h2 class="no-break">by Gilbert White</h2> -<hr /> +<hr > <div class="chapter"> <h2>INVITATION TO SELBORNE.</h2> <p class="noindent"> -See, Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round<br/> -The varied valley, and the mountain ground,<br/> -Wildly majestic ! What is all the pride,<br/> -Of flats, with loads of ornaments supplied ?—<br/> -Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense,<br/> +See, Selborne spreads her boldest beauties round<br> +The varied valley, and the mountain ground,<br> +Wildly majestic ! What is all the pride,<br> +Of flats, with loads of ornaments supplied ?—<br> +Unpleasing, tasteless, impotent expense,<br> Compared with Nature’s rude magnificenee. </p> <p> -Arise, my stranger, to these wild scenes haste;<br/> -The unfinish’d farm awaits your forming taste:<br/> -Plan the pavilion, airy, light, and true;<br/> -Through the high arch call in the length’ning view;<br/> -Expand the forest sloping up the hill;<br/> -Swell to a lake the scant, penurious rill;<br/> -Extend the vista; raise the castle mound<br/> -In antique taste, with turrets ivy-crown’d:<br/> -O’er the gay lawn the flow’ry shrub dispread,<br/> -Or with the blending garden mix the mead;<br/> -Bid China’s pale, fantastic fence delight;<br/> +Arise, my stranger, to these wild scenes haste;<br> +The unfinish’d farm awaits your forming taste:<br> +Plan the pavilion, airy, light, and true;<br> +Through the high arch call in the length’ning view;<br> +Expand the forest sloping up the hill;<br> +Swell to a lake the scant, penurious rill;<br> +Extend the vista; raise the castle mound<br> +In antique taste, with turrets ivy-crown’d:<br> +O’er the gay lawn the flow’ry shrub dispread,<br> +Or with the blending garden mix the mead;<br> +Bid China’s pale, fantastic fence delight;<br> Or with the mimic statue trap the sight. </p> <p> -Oft on some evening, sunny, soft, and still,<br/> -The Muse shall lead thee to the beech-grown hill,<br/> -To spend in tea the cool, refreshing hour,<br/> -Where nods in air the pensile, nest-like bower;<br/> -Or where the hermit hangs the straw-clad cell,<br/> -Emerging gently from the leafy dell,<br/> -By fancy plann’d; as once th’ inventive maid<br/> -Met the hoar sage amid the secret shade:<br/> -Romantic spot ! from whence in prospect lies<br/> -Whate’er of landscape charms our feasting eyes’—<br/> -The pointed spire, the hall, the pasture plain,<br/> -The russet fallow, or the golden grain,<br/> -The breezy lake that sheds a gleaming light,<br/> +Oft on some evening, sunny, soft, and still,<br> +The Muse shall lead thee to the beech-grown hill,<br> +To spend in tea the cool, refreshing hour,<br> +Where nods in air the pensile, nest-like bower;<br> +Or where the hermit hangs the straw-clad cell,<br> +Emerging gently from the leafy dell,<br> +By fancy plann’d; as once th’ inventive maid<br> +Met the hoar sage amid the secret shade:<br> +Romantic spot ! from whence in prospect lies<br> +Whate’er of landscape charms our feasting eyes’—<br> +The pointed spire, the hall, the pasture plain,<br> +The russet fallow, or the golden grain,<br> +The breezy lake that sheds a gleaming light,<br> Till all the fading picture fail the sight. </p> <p> -Each to his task; all different ways retire:<br/> -Cull the dry stick; call forth the seeds of fire;<br/> -Deep fix the kettle’s props, a forky row,<br/> +Each to his task; all different ways retire:<br> +Cull the dry stick; call forth the seeds of fire;<br> +Deep fix the kettle’s props, a forky row,<br> Or give with fanning hat the breeze to blow. </p> <p> -Whence is this taste, the furnish’d hall forgot,<br/> -To feast in gardens, or th’ unhandy grot ?<br/> -Or novelty with some new charms surprises,<br/> -Or from our very shifts some joy arises.<br/> -Hark, while below the village bells ring round,<br/> -Echo, sweet nymph, returns the soften’d sound;<br/> -But if gusts rise, the rushing forests roar,<br/> +Whence is this taste, the furnish’d hall forgot,<br> +To feast in gardens, or th’ unhandy grot ?<br> +Or novelty with some new charms surprises,<br> +Or from our very shifts some joy arises.<br> +Hark, while below the village bells ring round,<br> +Echo, sweet nymph, returns the soften’d sound;<br> +But if gusts rise, the rushing forests roar,<br> Like the tide tumbling on the pebbly shore. </p> <p> -Adown the vale, in lone, sequester’d nook,<br/> -Where skirting woods imbrown the dimpling brook,<br/> -The ruin’d convent lies: here wont to dwell<br/> -The lazy canon midst his cloister’d cell,<br/> -While Papal darkness brooded o’er the land,<br/> -Ere Reformation made her glorious stand:<br/> -Still oft at eve belated shepherd swains<br/> +Adown the vale, in lone, sequester’d nook,<br> +Where skirting woods imbrown the dimpling brook,<br> +The ruin’d convent lies: here wont to dwell<br> +The lazy canon midst his cloister’d cell,<br> +While Papal darkness brooded o’er the land,<br> +Ere Reformation made her glorious stand:<br> +Still oft at eve belated shepherd swains<br> See the cowl’d spectre skim the folded plains. </p> <p> -To the high Temple would my stranger go,<br/> -The mountain-brow commands the woods below:<br/> -In Jewry first this order found a name,<br/> -When madding Croisades set the world in flame;<br/> -When western climes, urged on by pope and priest<br/> -Pour’d forth their minions o’er the deluged East:<br/> -Luxurious knights, ill suited to defy<br/> +To the high Temple would my stranger go,<br> +The mountain-brow commands the woods below:<br> +In Jewry first this order found a name,<br> +When madding Croisades set the world in flame;<br> +When western climes, urged on by pope and priest<br> +Pour’d forth their minions o’er the deluged East:<br> +Luxurious knights, ill suited to defy<br> To mortal fight Turcestan chivalry. </p> <p> -Nor be the parsonage by the Muse forgot —<br/> -The partial bard admires his native spot;<br/> -Smit with its beauties, loved, as yet a child,<br/> -Unconscious why, its capes, grotesque and wild.<br/> -High on a mound th’ exalted gardens stand,<br/> -Beneath, deep valleys, scoop’d by Nature’s hand.<br/> -A Cobham here, exulting in his art,<br/> -Might blend the general’s with the gardener’s part;<br/> -Might fortify with all the martial trade<br/> -Of rampart, bastion, fosse, and palisade;<br/> -Might plant the mortar with wide threat’ning bore,<br/> +Nor be the parsonage by the Muse forgot —<br> +The partial bard admires his native spot;<br> +Smit with its beauties, loved, as yet a child,<br> +Unconscious why, its capes, grotesque and wild.<br> +High on a mound th’ exalted gardens stand,<br> +Beneath, deep valleys, scoop’d by Nature’s hand.<br> +A Cobham here, exulting in his art,<br> +Might blend the general’s with the gardener’s part;<br> +Might fortify with all the martial trade<br> +Of rampart, bastion, fosse, and palisade;<br> +Might plant the mortar with wide threat’ning bore,<br> Or bid the mimic cannon seem to roar: </p> <p> -Now climb the steep, drop now your eye belong<br/> -Where round the blooming village orchards grow;<br/> -There, like a picture, lies my lowly seat,<br/> +Now climb the steep, drop now your eye belong<br> +Where round the blooming village orchards grow;<br> +There, like a picture, lies my lowly seat,<br> A rural, shelter’d, unobserved retreat. </p> <p> -Me far above the rest Selbornian scenes,<br/> -The pendent forests, and the mountain greens,<br/> -Strike with delight; there spreads the distant view,<br/> -That gradual fades till sunk in misty blue:<br/> -Here Nature hangs her slopy woods to sight,<br/> +Me far above the rest Selbornian scenes,<br> +The pendent forests, and the mountain greens,<br> +Strike with delight; there spreads the distant view,<br> +That gradual fades till sunk in misty blue:<br> +Here Nature hangs her slopy woods to sight,<br> Rills purl between and dart a quivering light. </p> @@ -215,57 +213,57 @@ A WINTER PIECE, TO THE MISS B*****S </p> <p class="noindent"> -The bard, who sang so late in blithest strain<br/> -Selbornian prospects, and the rural reign,<br/> -Now suits his plaintive pipe to sadden’d tone,<br/> +The bard, who sang so late in blithest strain<br> +Selbornian prospects, and the rural reign,<br> +Now suits his plaintive pipe to sadden’d tone,<br> While the blank swains the changeful year bemoan. </p> <p> -How fallen the glories of these fading scenes !<br/> -The dusky beech resigns his vernal greens;<br/> -The yellow maple mourns in sickly hue,<br/> +How fallen the glories of these fading scenes !<br> +The dusky beech resigns his vernal greens;<br> +The yellow maple mourns in sickly hue,<br> And russet woodlands crowd the dark’ning view. </p> <p> -Dim, clust’ring fogs involve the country round,<br/> -The valley and the blended mountain ground<br/> -Sink in confusion; but with tempest-wing<br/> -Should Boreas from his northern barrier spring,<br/> -The rushing woods with deaf’ning clamour roar,<br/> -Like the sea tumbling on the pebbly shore.<br/> -When spouting rains descend in torrent tides,<br/> -See the torn zigzag weep its channel’d sides:<br/> -Winter exerts its rage; heavy and slow,<br/> -From the keen east rolls on the treasured snow;<br/> -Sunk with its weight the bending boughs are seen,<br/> -And one bright deluge whelms the works of men.<br/> -Amidst this savage landscape, bleak and bare,<br/> -Hangs the chill hermitage in middle air;<br/> -Its haunts forsaken, and its feasts forgot,<br/> -A leaf-strown, lonely, desolated cot !<br/> -Is this the scene that late with rapture rang,<br/> -Where Delphy danced, and gentle Anna sang ?<br/> -With fairy step where Harriet tripp’d so late,<br/> +Dim, clust’ring fogs involve the country round,<br> +The valley and the blended mountain ground<br> +Sink in confusion; but with tempest-wing<br> +Should Boreas from his northern barrier spring,<br> +The rushing woods with deaf’ning clamour roar,<br> +Like the sea tumbling on the pebbly shore.<br> +When spouting rains descend in torrent tides,<br> +See the torn zigzag weep its channel’d sides:<br> +Winter exerts its rage; heavy and slow,<br> +From the keen east rolls on the treasured snow;<br> +Sunk with its weight the bending boughs are seen,<br> +And one bright deluge whelms the works of men.<br> +Amidst this savage landscape, bleak and bare,<br> +Hangs the chill hermitage in middle air;<br> +Its haunts forsaken, and its feasts forgot,<br> +A leaf-strown, lonely, desolated cot !<br> +Is this the scene that late with rapture rang,<br> +Where Delphy danced, and gentle Anna sang ?<br> +With fairy step where Harriet tripp’d so late,<br> And, on her stump reclined, the musing Kitty sate ? </p> <p> -Return, dear nymphs; prevent the purple spring,<br/> -Ere the soft nightingale essays to sing;<br/> -Ere the first swallow sweeps the fresh’ning plain,<br/> -Ere love-sick turtles breathe their amorous pain;<br/> -Let festive glee th’ enliven’d village raise,<br/> -Pan’s blameless reign, and patriarchal days;<br/> -With pastoral dance the smitten swain surprise,<br/> +Return, dear nymphs; prevent the purple spring,<br> +Ere the soft nightingale essays to sing;<br> +Ere the first swallow sweeps the fresh’ning plain,<br> +Ere love-sick turtles breathe their amorous pain;<br> +Let festive glee th’ enliven’d village raise,<br> +Pan’s blameless reign, and patriarchal days;<br> +With pastoral dance the smitten swain surprise,<br> And bring all Arcady before our eyes. </p> <p> -Return, blithe maidens; with you bring along<br/> -Free, native humour; all the charms of song;<br/> -The feeling heart, and unaffected ease;<br/> +Return, blithe maidens; with you bring along<br> +Free, native humour; all the charms of song;<br> +The feeling heart, and unaffected ease;<br> Each nameless grace, and ev’ry power to please. </p> @@ -285,29 +283,29 @@ in the brightness thereof.”—<i>Eccles</i>., xliii. 11. </p> <p class="noindent"> -On morning or on evening cloud impress’d,<br/> -Bent in vast curve, the watery meteor shines<br/> -Delightfully, to th’ levell’d sun opposed:<br/> -Lovely refraction ! while the vivid brede<br/> -In listed colours glows, th’ unconscious swain,<br/> -With vacant eye, gazes on the divine<br/> -Phenomenon, gleaming o’er the illumined fields,<br/> +On morning or on evening cloud impress’d,<br> +Bent in vast curve, the watery meteor shines<br> +Delightfully, to th’ levell’d sun opposed:<br> +Lovely refraction ! while the vivid brede<br> +In listed colours glows, th’ unconscious swain,<br> +With vacant eye, gazes on the divine<br> +Phenomenon, gleaming o’er the illumined fields,<br> Or runs to catch the treasures which it sheds. </p> <p> -Not so the sage: inspired with pious awe,<br/> -He hails the federal arch ; and looking up,<br/> -Adores that God, whose fingers form’d this bow<br/> -Magnificent, compassing heaven about<br/> -With a resplendent verge, “Thou mad’st the cloud,<br/> -“Maker omnipotent, and thou the bow;<br/> -“And by that covenant graciously hast sworn<br/> -“Never to drown the world again: henceforth,<br/> -“Till time shall be no more, in ceaseless round,<br/> -“Season shall follow season: day to night,<br/> -“Summer to winter, harvest to seed time,<br/> -“Heat shall to cold in regular array<br/> +Not so the sage: inspired with pious awe,<br> +He hails the federal arch ; and looking up,<br> +Adores that God, whose fingers form’d this bow<br> +Magnificent, compassing heaven about<br> +With a resplendent verge, “Thou mad’st the cloud,<br> +“Maker omnipotent, and thou the bow;<br> +“And by that covenant graciously hast sworn<br> +“Never to drown the world again: henceforth,<br> +“Till time shall be no more, in ceaseless round,<br> +“Season shall follow season: day to night,<br> +“Summer to winter, harvest to seed time,<br> +“Heat shall to cold in regular array<br> “Succeed.”—Heav’n taught, so sang the Hebrew bard. </p> @@ -318,31 +316,31 @@ With a resplendent verge, “Thou mad’st the cloud,<br/> <h2>A HARVEST SCENE.</h2> <p class="noindent"> -Waked by the gentle gleamings of the morn,<br/> -Soon clad, the reaper, provident of want,<br/> -Hies cheerful-hearted to the ripen’d field:<br/> -Nor hastes alone: attendant by his side<br/> -His faithful wife, sole partner of his cares,<br/> -Bears on her breast the sleeping babe; behind,<br/> -With steps unequal, trips her infant train;<br/> +Waked by the gentle gleamings of the morn,<br> +Soon clad, the reaper, provident of want,<br> +Hies cheerful-hearted to the ripen’d field:<br> +Nor hastes alone: attendant by his side<br> +His faithful wife, sole partner of his cares,<br> +Bears on her breast the sleeping babe; behind,<br> +With steps unequal, trips her infant train;<br> Thrice happy pair, in love and labour join’d ! </p> <p> -All day they ply their task; with mutual chat,<br/> -Beguiling each the sultry, tedious hours.<br/> -Around them falls in rows the sever’d corn,<br/> +All day they ply their task; with mutual chat,<br> +Beguiling each the sultry, tedious hours.<br> +Around them falls in rows the sever’d corn,<br> Or the shocks rise in regular array. </p> <p> -But when high noon invites to short repast,<br/> -Beneath the shade of sheltering thorn they sit,<br/> -Divide the simple meal, and drain the cask:<br/> -The swinging cradle lulls the whimpering babe<br/> -Meantime; while growling round, if at the tread<br/> -Of hasty passenger alarm’d, as of their store<br/> -Protective, stalks the cur with bristling back,<br/> +But when high noon invites to short repast,<br> +Beneath the shade of sheltering thorn they sit,<br> +Divide the simple meal, and drain the cask:<br> +The swinging cradle lulls the whimpering babe<br> +Meantime; while growling round, if at the tread<br> +Of hasty passenger alarm’d, as of their store<br> +Protective, stalks the cur with bristling back,<br> To guard the scanty scrip and russet frock. </p> @@ -357,70 +355,70 @@ OCCASIONALLY HAPPENING IN THE WINTER MONTHS. </p> <p class="noindent"> -Th’ imprison’d winds slumber within their caves,<br/> -Fast bound: the fickle vane, emblem of change,<br/> +Th’ imprison’d winds slumber within their caves,<br> +Fast bound: the fickle vane, emblem of change,<br> Wavers no more, long settling to a point. </p> <p> -All Nature nodding seems composed: thick steams,<br/> -From land, from flood up-drawn, dimming the day,<br/> -“Like a dark ceiling stand:” slow through the air<br/> -Gossamer floats, or, stretch’d from blade to blade,<br/> +All Nature nodding seems composed: thick steams,<br> +From land, from flood up-drawn, dimming the day,<br> +“Like a dark ceiling stand:” slow through the air<br> +Gossamer floats, or, stretch’d from blade to blade,<br> The wavy net-work whitens all the field. </p> <p> -Push’d by the weightier atmosphere, up springs<br/> -The ponderous mercury, from scale to scale<br/> +Push’d by the weightier atmosphere, up springs<br> +The ponderous mercury, from scale to scale<br> Mounting, amidst the Torricellian tube. </p> <p> -While high in air, and poised upon his wings,<br/> -Unseen, the soft, enamour’d woodlark runs<br/> -Through all his maze of melody; the brake,<br/> +While high in air, and poised upon his wings,<br> +Unseen, the soft, enamour’d woodlark runs<br> +Through all his maze of melody; the brake,<br> Loud with the blackbird’s bolder note, resounds. </p> <p> -Sooth’d by the genial warmth, the cawing rook<br/> -Anticipates the spring, selects her mate,<br/> -Haunts her tall nest-trees, and with sedulous care<br/> +Sooth’d by the genial warmth, the cawing rook<br> +Anticipates the spring, selects her mate,<br> +Haunts her tall nest-trees, and with sedulous care<br> Repairs her wicker eyrie, tempest-torn. </p> <p> -The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn<br/> -His mellow globe, best pledge of future crop:<br/> -With glee the gardener eyes his smoking beds;<br/> +The ploughman inly smiles to see upturn<br> +His mellow globe, best pledge of future crop:<br> +With glee the gardener eyes his smoking beds;<br> E’en pining sickness feels a short relief </p> <p> -The happy schoolboy brings transported forth<br/> -His long-forgotten scourge, and giddy gig:<br/> -O’er the white paths he whirls the rolling hoop,<br/> +The happy schoolboy brings transported forth<br> +His long-forgotten scourge, and giddy gig:<br> +O’er the white paths he whirls the rolling hoop,<br> Or triumphs in the dusty fields of taw. </p> <p> -Not so the museful sage:—abroad he walks<br/> -Contemplative, if haply he may find<br/> -What cause controls the tempest’s rage, or whence,<br/> +Not so the museful sage:—abroad he walks<br> +Contemplative, if haply he may find<br> +What cause controls the tempest’s rage, or whence,<br> Amidst the savage season, Winter smiles. </p> <p> -For days, for weeks, prevails the placid calm.<br/> -At length some drops prelude a change: the sun<br/> -With ray refracted, bursts the parting gloom,<br/> +For days, for weeks, prevails the placid calm.<br> +At length some drops prelude a change: the sun<br> +With ray refracted, bursts the parting gloom,<br> When all the chequer’d sky is one bright glare. </p> <p> -Mutters the wind at eve; th’ horizon round<br/> -With angry aspect scowls: down rush the showers,<br/> +Mutters the wind at eve; th’ horizon round<br> +With angry aspect scowls: down rush the showers,<br> And float the deluged paths, and miry fields. </p> @@ -431,9 +429,9 @@ And float the deluged paths, and miry fields. <h2>THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE</h2> <p class="center"> -In a series of letters addressed to<br/> -THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ.<br/> -and<br/> +In a series of letters addressed to<br> +THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ.<br> +and<br> The Hon. DAINES BARRINGTON </p> @@ -497,7 +495,7 @@ GIL. WHITE. </p> <p class="letter"> -Selborne,<br/> +Selborne,<br> January 1st, 1788. </p> @@ -895,7 +893,7 @@ in so woody and mountainous a district. As my experience in measuring the water is but of short date, I am not qualified to give the mean quantity.* I only know that: </p> -<table summary="" style=""> +<table> <tr> <td></td><td>Inch. </td><td>Hund.</td> @@ -969,10 +967,10 @@ with children. </p> <p class="letter"> -The number of tenements or families, 136.<br/> -The number of inhabitants in the street is … 313<br/> -In the rest of the parish … 363<br/> -Total, 676; near five inhabitants to each tenement.<br/> +The number of tenements or families, 136.<br> +The number of inhabitants in the street is … 313<br> +In the rest of the parish … 363<br> +Total, 676; near five inhabitants to each tenement.<br> In the time of the Rev. Gilbert White, vicar, who died in 1727–8, the number of inhabitants was computed at about 500.) </p> @@ -982,21 +980,21 @@ Average of baptisms for 60 years. </p> <p> -From 1720 to 1729, both years inclusive Males 6,9 Females<br/> -6,0 12,9<br/> -From 1730 to 1739, both years inclusive Males 8,2 Females<br/> -7,1 15,3<br/> -From 1740 to 1749, inclusive Males 9,2 Females 6,6 15,8<br/> -From 1750 to 1759, inclusive Males 7,6 Females 8,1 15,7<br/> -From 1760 to 1769, inclusive Males 9,1 Females 8,9 18,0<br/> -From 1770 to 1779, inclusive Males 10,5 Females 9,8 20<br/> +From 1720 to 1729, both years inclusive Males 6,9 Females<br> +6,0 12,9<br> +From 1730 to 1739, both years inclusive Males 8,2 Females<br> +7,1 15,3<br> +From 1740 to 1749, inclusive Males 9,2 Females 6,6 15,8<br> +From 1750 to 1759, inclusive Males 7,6 Females 8,1 15,7<br> +From 1760 to 1769, inclusive Males 9,1 Females 8,9 18,0<br> +From 1770 to 1779, inclusive Males 10,5 Females 9,8 20<br> 3 </p> <p> -Total baptisms of Males 515<br/> -Females 465 980<br/> -Total of baptisms from 1720 to 1779, both inclusive, 60 years<br/> +Total baptisms of Males 515<br> +Females 465 980<br> +Total of baptisms from 1720 to 1779, both inclusive, 60 years<br> 980. </p> @@ -1005,18 +1003,18 @@ Average of burials for 60 years. </p> <p> -From 1720 to 1729, both years inclusive Males 4,8 Females<br/> -5,1 9,9<br/> -From 1730 to 1739, both years inclusive Males 4,8 Females<br/> -5,8 10,6<br/> -From 1740 to 1749, inclusive Males 4,6 Females 3,8 8,4<br/> -From 1750 to 1759, inclusive Males 4,9 Females 5,1 10,0<br/> -From 1760 to 1769, inclusive Males 6,9 Females 6,5 13,4<br/> +From 1720 to 1729, both years inclusive Males 4,8 Females<br> +5,1 9,9<br> +From 1730 to 1739, both years inclusive Males 4,8 Females<br> +5,8 10,6<br> +From 1740 to 1749, inclusive Males 4,6 Females 3,8 8,4<br> +From 1750 to 1759, inclusive Males 4,9 Females 5,1 10,0<br> +From 1760 to 1769, inclusive Males 6,9 Females 6,5 13,4<br> From 1770 to 1779, inclusive Males 5,5 Females 6,2 11,7 </p> <p> -Total of burials of Males 315<br/> +Total of burials of Males 315<br> Females 325 640 </p> @@ -1050,7 +1048,7 @@ life. Chances for life in men and women appear to be equal. </p> -<hr /> +<hr > <p> A TABLE of the Baptisms, Burials, and Marriages, from January 2, 1761, to @@ -1065,9 +1063,9 @@ Baptisms. 1761 Males 8 Females 10 Total 18 1762 7 8 15 1763 8 10 18 1764 11 9 20 1765 12 6 18 1766 9 13 22 1767 14 5 19 1768 7 6 13 1769 9 - 14 23 1770 10 13 23 1771 10 6 16 1772 11 - 10 21 1773 8 5 13 1774 6 13 19 1775 20 7 - 27 1776 11 10 21 1777 8 13 21 1778 7 13 + 14 23 1770 10 13 23 1771 10 6 16 1772 11 + 10 21 1773 8 5 13 1774 6 13 19 1775 20 7 + 27 1776 11 10 21 1777 8 13 21 1778 7 13 20 1779 14 8 22 1780 8 9 17 198 188 386 </p> @@ -1077,11 +1075,11 @@ Burials. <p> 1761 Males 2 Females 4 Total 6 1762 10 10 20 -1763 3 4 7 1764 10 8 18 1765 9 7 16 1766 - 10 6 16 1767 6 5 11 1768 2 5 7 1769 6 - 5 11 1770 4 7 11 1771 3 4 7 1772 6 10 +1763 3 4 7 1764 10 8 18 1765 9 7 16 1766 + 10 6 16 1767 6 5 11 1768 2 5 7 1769 6 + 5 11 1770 4 7 11 1771 3 4 7 1772 6 10 16 1773 7 5 12 1774 2 8 10 1775 13 8 21 -1776 4 6 10 1777 7 2 9 1778 3 9 12 1779 +1776 4 6 10 1777 7 2 9 1778 3 9 12 1779 5 6 11 1780 11 4 15 123 123 246 </p> @@ -1430,10 +1428,10 @@ says, in his Summer: </p> <p class="poem"> -A various group the herds and flocks compose:<br/> -… on the grassy bank<br/> -Some ruminating lie; while others stand<br/> -Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip<br/> +A various group the herds and flocks compose:<br> +… on the grassy bank<br> +Some ruminating lie; while others stand<br> +Half in the flood, and, often bending, sip<br> The circling surface. </p> @@ -2162,15 +2160,15 @@ that stags have four spiracula: </p> <p class="poem"> -Τετράδυμοι ῥινὲς, πίσυρες πνοίῃσι δίαυλοι.<br/> -Quadrifidæ nares, quadruplices ad respirationem canales.<br/> +Τετράδυμοι ῥινὲς, πίσυρες πνοίῃσι δίαυλοι.<br> +Quadrifidæ nares, quadruplices ad respirationem canales.<br> Opp. <i>Cyn</i>. lib. ii. 1. 181. </p> <p> Writers, copying from one another, make Aristotle say that goats breathe at -their ears; whereas he asserts just the contrary:—Ἀλκμαίων γὰρ οὐκ ἀληθῆ -λέγει, φάμενος ἀναπνεῖν τὰς αἶγας κατὰ τὰ ὠτά. ‘Alcmaeon does not advance +their ears; whereas he asserts just the contrary:—Ἀλκμαίων γὰρ οὐκ ἀληθ +λέγει, φάμενος ἀναπνεῖν τὰς αἶγας κατὰ τὰ ὠτά. ‘Alcmaeon does not advance what is true, when he avers that goats breathe through their ears.’—History of Animals. Book I. chap. xi. </p> @@ -2347,7 +2345,7 @@ A List of the summer birds of passage discovered in this neighbourhood, ranged somewhat in the order in which they appear: </p> -<table summary="" style="margin-left: 2em;"> +<table style="margin-left: 2em;"> <tr> <td></td><td>Linnæi Nomina</td> @@ -2497,7 +2495,7 @@ case is the same as regards some of the fishes: as the eel, etc. The method in which toads procreate and bring forth seems to me very much in the dark. Some authors say that they are viviparous: and yet Ray classes them among his oviparous animals; and is silent with regard to the manner of their -bringing forth. Perhaps they may be ἔσω μὲν ὠοτὸκοι, ἔξω δε ζωοτόκοι, as is +bringing forth. Perhaps they may be ἔσω μὲν ὠοτὸκοι, ἔξω δε ζωοτόκοι, as is known to be the case with the viper. </p> @@ -3226,7 +3224,7 @@ To Thomas Pennant, Esquire <h3>The Naturalist’s Summer-evening Walk</h3> <p class="poem"> -… equidem credo, quia sit divinitus illis<br/> +… equidem credo, quia sit divinitus illis<br> Ingenium. </p> @@ -3235,49 +3233,49 @@ V<small>IRG</small>. G<small>EORG</small>. </p> <p class="noindent"> -When day declining sheds a milder gleam,<br/> -What time the may-fly[1] haunts the pool or stream;<br/> -When the still owl skims round the grassy mead,<br/> -What time the timorous hare limps forth to feed;<br/> -Then be the time to steal adown the vale,<br/> -And listen to the vagrant[2] cuckoo’s tale,<br/> -To hear the clamorous[3] curlew call his mate,<br/> -Or the soft quail his tender pain relate;<br/> -To see the swallow sweep the dark’ning plain<br/> -Belated, to support her infant train;<br/> -To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring<br/> -Dash round the steeple, unsubdu’d of wing:<br/> -Amusive birds!—say where your hid retreat<br/> -When the frost rages and the tempests beat;<br/> -Whence your return, by such nice instinct led,<br/> -When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ?<br/> -Such baffled searches mock man’s prying pride,<br/> -The God of Nature is your secret guide!<br/> -While deep’ning shades obscure the face of day<br/> -To yonder bench, leaf-shelter’d, let us stray,<br/> -Till blended objects fail the swimming sight,<br/> -And all the fading landscape sinks in night;<br/> -To hear the drowsy dor come brushing by<br/> -With buzzing wing, or the shrill[4] cricket cry;<br/> -To see the feeding bat glance through the wood;<br/> -To catch the distant falling of the flood;<br/> -While o’er the cliff th’ awakened churn-owl hung<br/> -Through the still gloom protracts his chattering song;<br/> -While high in air, and pois’d upon his wings,<br/> -Unseen, the soft enamour’d woodlark[5] sings:<br/> -These, Nature’s works, the curious mind employ,<br/> -Inspire a soothing melancholy joy:<br/> -As fancy warms, a pleasing kind of pain<br/> -Steals o’er the cheek, and thrills the creeping vein!<br/> -Each rural sight, each sound, each smell combine;<br/> -The tinkling sheep-bell, or the breath of kine;<br/> -The new-mown hay that scents the swelling breeze,<br/> -Or cottage-chimney smoking through the trees.<br/> -The chilling night-dews fall: away, retire;<br/> -For see, the glow-worm lights her amorous fire![6]<br/> -Thus, ere night’s veil had half obscured the sky,<br/> -Th’ impatient damsel hung her lamp on high:<br/> -True to the signal, by love’s meteor led,<br/> +When day declining sheds a milder gleam,<br> +What time the may-fly[1] haunts the pool or stream;<br> +When the still owl skims round the grassy mead,<br> +What time the timorous hare limps forth to feed;<br> +Then be the time to steal adown the vale,<br> +And listen to the vagrant[2] cuckoo’s tale,<br> +To hear the clamorous[3] curlew call his mate,<br> +Or the soft quail his tender pain relate;<br> +To see the swallow sweep the dark’ning plain<br> +Belated, to support her infant train;<br> +To mark the swift in rapid giddy ring<br> +Dash round the steeple, unsubdu’d of wing:<br> +Amusive birds!—say where your hid retreat<br> +When the frost rages and the tempests beat;<br> +Whence your return, by such nice instinct led,<br> +When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ?<br> +Such baffled searches mock man’s prying pride,<br> +The God of Nature is your secret guide!<br> +While deep’ning shades obscure the face of day<br> +To yonder bench, leaf-shelter’d, let us stray,<br> +Till blended objects fail the swimming sight,<br> +And all the fading landscape sinks in night;<br> +To hear the drowsy dor come brushing by<br> +With buzzing wing, or the shrill[4] cricket cry;<br> +To see the feeding bat glance through the wood;<br> +To catch the distant falling of the flood;<br> +While o’er the cliff th’ awakened churn-owl hung<br> +Through the still gloom protracts his chattering song;<br> +While high in air, and pois’d upon his wings,<br> +Unseen, the soft enamour’d woodlark[5] sings:<br> +These, Nature’s works, the curious mind employ,<br> +Inspire a soothing melancholy joy:<br> +As fancy warms, a pleasing kind of pain<br> +Steals o’er the cheek, and thrills the creeping vein!<br> +Each rural sight, each sound, each smell combine;<br> +The tinkling sheep-bell, or the breath of kine;<br> +The new-mown hay that scents the swelling breeze,<br> +Or cottage-chimney smoking through the trees.<br> +The chilling night-dews fall: away, retire;<br> +For see, the glow-worm lights her amorous fire![6]<br> +Thus, ere night’s veil had half obscured the sky,<br> +Th’ impatient damsel hung her lamp on high:<br> +True to the signal, by love’s meteor led,<br> Leander hasten’d to his Hero’s bed.[7] </p> @@ -5032,7 +5030,7 @@ roused from their roost-trees on an evening, </p> <p class="poem"> -Their rising all at once was like the sound<br/> +Their rising all at once was like the sound<br> Of thunder heard remote…. </p> @@ -5065,19 +5063,19 @@ language, that without farther excuse I shall add his translation also. </p> <p class="poem"> -Qualis speluncâ subitò commota Columba,<br/> -Cui domus, et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi,<br/> -Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis<br/> -Dat tecto ingentem—mox aere lapse quieto,<br/> +Qualis speluncâ subitò commota Columba,<br> +Cui domus, et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi,<br> +Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis<br> +Dat tecto ingentem—mox aere lapse quieto,<br> Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas. </p> <p class="poem"> -As when a dove her rocky hold forsakes,<br/> -Rous’d, in her fright her sounding wings she shakes;<br/> -The cavern rings with clattering:—out she flies,<br/> -And leaves her callow care, and cleaves the skies:<br/> -At first she flutters:—but at length she springs<br/> +As when a dove her rocky hold forsakes,<br> +Rous’d, in her fright her sounding wings she shakes;<br> +The cavern rings with clattering:—out she flies,<br> +And leaves her callow care, and cleaves the skies:<br> +At first she flutters:—but at length she springs<br> To smoother flight, and shoots upon her wings. </p> @@ -5818,7 +5816,7 @@ it always brings to my mind those lines in a song in As You Like It, </p> <p class="poem"> -And tune his merry note<br/> +And tune his merry note<br> Unto the wild bird’s throat.—Shakespeare. </p> @@ -5916,7 +5914,7 @@ talking of: <p class="poem"> ‘She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not -hers:<br/> +hers:<br> Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.’* </p> @@ -6143,9 +6141,9 @@ beautiful girl that the difference shall not be discernible: </p> <p class="poem"> -Quem si puellarum insereres choro,<br/> -Mire sagaces falleret hospites<br/> -Discrimen obscurum, solutis<br/> +Quem si puellarum insereres choro,<br> +Mire sagaces falleret hospites<br> +Discrimen obscurum, solutis<br> Crinibus, ambiguoque vultu.—H<small>OR</small>. </p> @@ -6227,7 +6225,7 @@ nest of a titlark; it was become vastly too big for its nest, appearing </p> <p class="poem"> -… in tenui re<br/> +… in tenui re<br> Majores pennas nido extendisse … </p> @@ -6467,11 +6465,11 @@ do not </p> <p class="poem"> -… rang’d in figure wedge their way,<br/> -… and set forth<br/> -Their airy caravan high over seas<br/> -Flying, and over lands with mutual wing<br/> -Easing their flight …<br/> +… rang’d in figure wedge their way,<br> +… and set forth<br> +Their airy caravan high over seas<br> +Flying, and over lands with mutual wing<br> +Easing their flight …<br> </p> <p class="right"> @@ -7171,7 +7169,7 @@ dung of nestlings is enveloped into a tough kind of jelly, and therefore is the easier conveyed off without soiling or daubing. Yet, as nature is cleanly in all her ways, the young perform this office for themselves in a little time by thrusting their tails out at the aperture of their nest. As the young of small -birds presently arrive at their ἡλικία or full growth, they soon become +birds presently arrive at their ἡλικία or full growth, they soon become impatient of confinement, and sit all day with their heads out at the orifice, where the dams, by clinging to the nest, supply them with food from morning to night. For a time the young are fed on the wing by their parents; but the feat @@ -7471,7 +7469,7 @@ she did in Virgil’s time: </p> <p class="poem"> -… Ante<br/> +… Ante<br> Garrula quam tignis nidos suspendat hirundo. </p> @@ -7698,10 +7696,10 @@ is somewhat loquacious.* </p> <p class="footnote"> -* Nigra velut magnas domini cum divitis ædes<br/> -Pervolat, et pennis alta atria lustrat hirundo,<br/> -Pabula parva legens, nidisque loquacibus escas:<br/> -Et nunc porticibus vacuis, nunc humida circum<br/> +* Nigra velut magnas domini cum divitis ædes<br> +Pervolat, et pennis alta atria lustrat hirundo,<br> +Pabula parva legens, nidisque loquacibus escas:<br> +Et nunc porticibus vacuis, nunc humida circum<br> Stagna sonat … </p> @@ -8174,7 +8172,7 @@ but wonder when we reflected that these shiftless beings in a little more than a fortnight would be able to dash through the air almost with the inconceivable swiftness of a meteor; and perhaps, in their emigration must traverse vast continents and oceans as distant as the equator. So soon does nature advance -small birds to their ἡλικία or state of perfection; while the progressive +small birds to their ἡλικία or state of perfection; while the progressive growth of men and large quadrupeds is slow and tedious! </p> @@ -8451,7 +8449,7 @@ Adam, seems to be somewhat mistaken: </p> <p class="poem"> -Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl,<br/> +Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl,<br> So well converse, nor with the ox the ape. </p> @@ -8548,7 +8546,7 @@ Dear Sir, </p> <p class="poem"> -Hic … taedae pingues, hic plurimus ignis<br/> +Hic … taedae pingues, hic plurimus ignis<br> Semper, et assidua postes fuligine nigri. </p> @@ -8585,7 +8583,7 @@ in the sun. Some address is required in dipping these rushes in the scalding fat or grease; but this knack also is to be attained by practice. The careful wife of an industrious Hampshire labourer obtains all her fat for nothing; for she saves -the scumrnings of her bacon-pot for this use; and, if the grease abounds with +the scummings of her bacon-pot for this use; and, if the grease abounds with salt, she causes the salt to precipitate to the bottom, by setting the scummings in a warm oven. Where hogs are not much in use, and especially by the sea-side, the coarser animal oils will come very cheap. A pound of common @@ -8699,8 +8697,8 @@ we may justly say of him now, </p> <p class="poem"> -… Thou,<br/> -Had thy presiding star propitious shone,<br/> +… Thou,<br> +Had thy presiding star propitious shone,<br> Should’st Wildman be. … </p> @@ -9230,10 +9228,10 @@ be fostered and cherished by a bloody grimalkin. </p> <p class="poem"> -… viridi fœtam Mavortis in antro<br/> -Procubuisse lupam: geminos huic ubera circum<br/> -Ludere pendentes pueros, et lambere matrem<br/> -Impavidos: illam tereti cervice reflexam<br/> +… viridi fœtam Mavortis in antro<br> +Procubuisse lupam: geminos huic ubera circum<br> +Ludere pendentes pueros, et lambere matrem<br> +Impavidos: illam tereti cervice reflexam<br> Mulcere alternos, et corpora fingere lingua. </p> @@ -9567,9 +9565,9 @@ To The Honourable Daines Barrington </p> <p class="poem"> -Fortè puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido,<br/> -Dixerat, ecquis adest ? et, adest, responderat echo.<br/> -Hic stupet; utque aciem partes divisit in omnes;<br/> +Fortè puer, comitum seductus ab agmine fido,<br> +Dixerat, ecquis adest ? et, adest, responderat echo.<br> +Hic stupet; utque aciem partes divisit in omnes;<br> Voce, veni, clamat magna. Vocat illa vocantem. </p> @@ -9684,7 +9682,7 @@ bee-gardens, he adds </p> <p class="poem"> -… aut ubi concava pulsu<br/> +… aut ubi concava pulsu<br> Saxa sonant, vocisque offensa resultat image. </p> @@ -9730,7 +9728,7 @@ every individual of her sex; since she is </p> <p class="poem"> -… quæ nec reticere loquenti,<br/> +… quæ nec reticere loquenti,<br> Nec prior ipsa loqui didicit resonabilis echo. </p> @@ -9745,23 +9743,23 @@ causes from popular superstition: </p> <p class="poem"> -Quæ bene quom videas, rationem reddere possis<br/> -Tute tibi atque alus, quo pacto per loca sola<br/> -Saxa pareis formas verborum ex ordine reddant,<br/> -Palanteis comites quom monteis inter opacos<br/> -Quaerimus, et magna dispersos voce ciemus.<br/> -Sex etiam, aut septem loca vidi reddere voces<br/> -Unam quom jaceres: ita colles collibus ipsis<br/> -Verba repulsantes iterabant dicta referre.<br/> -Haec loca capripedes Satyros, Nymphasque tenere<br/> -Finitimi fingunt, et Faunos esse loquuntur;<br/> -Quorum noctivago strepitu, ludoque jocanti<br/> -Adfirmant volgo taciturna silentia rumpi,<br/> -Chordarumque sonos fieri, dulceisque querelas,<br/> -Tibia quas fundit digitis pulsata canentum:<br/> -Et genus agricolum late sentiscere, quom Pan<br/> -Pinea semiferi capitis velamina quassans,<br/> -Unco saepe labro calamos percurrit hianteis,<br/> +Quæ bene quom videas, rationem reddere possis<br> +Tute tibi atque alus, quo pacto per loca sola<br> +Saxa pareis formas verborum ex ordine reddant,<br> +Palanteis comites quom monteis inter opacos<br> +Quaerimus, et magna dispersos voce ciemus.<br> +Sex etiam, aut septem loca vidi reddere voces<br> +Unam quom jaceres: ita colles collibus ipsis<br> +Verba repulsantes iterabant dicta referre.<br> +Haec loca capripedes Satyros, Nymphasque tenere<br> +Finitimi fingunt, et Faunos esse loquuntur;<br> +Quorum noctivago strepitu, ludoque jocanti<br> +Adfirmant volgo taciturna silentia rumpi,<br> +Chordarumque sonos fieri, dulceisque querelas,<br> +Tibia quas fundit digitis pulsata canentum:<br> +Et genus agricolum late sentiscere, quom Pan<br> +Pinea semiferi capitis velamina quassans,<br> +Unco saepe labro calamos percurrit hianteis,<br> Fistula silvestrem ne cesset fundere musam. </p> @@ -10085,13 +10083,13 @@ difficult to be explained as the most stupendous phaenomenon in nature. </p> <p class="poem"> -Say, what impels, amidst surrounding snow,<br/> -Congealed, the crocus’ flamy bud to grow?<br/> -Say, what retards, amidst the summer’s blaze,<br/> -Th’ autumnal bulb till pale, declining days ?<br/> -The GOD of SEASONS; whose pervading power<br/> -Controls the sun, or sheds the fleecy shower:<br/> -He bids each flower His quickening word obey;<br/> +Say, what impels, amidst surrounding snow,<br> +Congealed, the crocus’ flamy bud to grow?<br> +Say, what retards, amidst the summer’s blaze,<br> +Th’ autumnal bulb till pale, declining days ?<br> +The GOD of SEASONS; whose pervading power<br> +Controls the sun, or sheds the fleecy shower:<br> +He bids each flower His quickening word obey;<br> Or to each lingering bloom enjoins delay. </p> @@ -10299,7 +10297,7 @@ divisions of the night. Thus the poet elegantly styles him: </p> <p class="poem"> -… the crested cock, whose clarion sounds<br/> +… the crested cock, whose clarion sounds<br> The silent hours. </p> @@ -10333,9 +10331,9 @@ Selborne. </p> <p class="poem"> -… monstrent.<br/> -* * * * *<br/> -Quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles<br/> +… monstrent.<br> +* * * * *<br> +Quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles<br> Hyberni; vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet. </p> @@ -10400,7 +10398,7 @@ Selborne. </p> <p class="poem"> -… Mugire videbis<br/> +… Mugire videbis<br> Sub pedibus terram, et descendere montibus ornos. </p> @@ -10413,13 +10411,13 @@ Splendid Shilling. </p> <p class="poem"> -I nor advise, nor reprehend the choice<br/> -Of Marcley Hill: the apple no where finds<br/> -A kinder mould: yet ’tis unsafe to trust<br/> -Deceitful ground: who knows but that once more<br/> -This mount may journey, and his present site<br/> -Forsaken, to thy neighbour’s bounds transfer<br/> -Thy goodly plants, affording matter strange<br/> +I nor advise, nor reprehend the choice<br> +Of Marcley Hill: the apple no where finds<br> +A kinder mould: yet ’tis unsafe to trust<br> +Deceitful ground: who knows but that once more<br> +This mount may journey, and his present site<br> +Forsaken, to thy neighbour’s bounds transfer<br> +Thy goodly plants, affording matter strange<br> For law debates! </p> @@ -10643,8 +10641,8 @@ Selborne. </p> <p class="poem"> -Far from all resort of mirth<br/> -Save the cricket on the hearth.<br/> +Far from all resort of mirth<br> +Save the cricket on the hearth.<br> M<small>ILTON’S</small> <i>Il Penseroso</i>. </p> @@ -10759,8 +10757,8 @@ domestic oeconomy: </p> <p class="poem"> -… ingentem lato dedit ore fenestram:<br/> -Apparet domus intus, et atria longa patescunt:<br/> +… ingentem lato dedit ore fenestram:<br> +Apparet domus intus, et atria longa patescunt:<br> Apparent … penetralia. </p> @@ -12197,11 +12195,11 @@ phaenomena. </p> <p class="poem"> -… As when the sun, new risen,<br/> -Looks through the horizontal, misty air,<br/> -Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon,<br/> -In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds<br/> -On half the nations, and with fear of change<br/> +… As when the sun, new risen,<br> +Looks through the horizontal, misty air,<br> +Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon,<br> +In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds<br> +On half the nations, and with fear of change<br> Perplexes monarchs…. </p> @@ -12285,8 +12283,8 @@ take a respectful leave of you and natural history together; and am, </p> <p> -With all due deference and regard,<br/> -Your most obliged,<br/> +With all due deference and regard,<br> +Your most obliged,<br> And most humble servant, </p> @@ -12295,7 +12293,7 @@ GIL. WHITE. </p> <p> -Selborne,<br/> +Selborne,<br> June 25, 1787. </p> @@ -12305,5 +12303,3 @@ June 25, 1787. </body> </html> - - |