CV111. 



HENRY STORKS EATON, M.A. 



Bridge. From the Winterbourne Lodge (near the Winterbourne "Wherry ") to 

 Winterbounie, on November 27th, the turnpike road was covered with water 

 running in a rapid stream to the depth of five or six inches and in some places two 

 or three feet. Springs rose underneath the houses in this village until only two 

 remained dry, and the water flooding the road was a foot deeper than it was in 

 1841. Another of the springs rose in the meadow between Bridehead and Little 

 Bridy Farm. The water flowed down through the grounds into Bridehead Pond, 

 joined by the outflow of a spring that broke out by the walnut trees in the 

 paddock, and formed a pool in front of Bridehead front door ; there was also a 

 spring in the cellar. Another spring started in the grounds below the rockery, 

 traversed the lawns, and ran down to the stream below the waterfall. Another 

 spring burst up in the cellar of Long Bridy Kectory, and "they broke the fire 

 engine in pumping the water out." 



During the last few days in November, 1852, readings of the thermometer 

 begin to be entered in the diary with vague indications of the time of the day, 

 such as " 28th. Thermometer this evening 41. 29th. This morning it is much 

 colder; thermometer 35, with a brisk wind from N. by E." The entry for 

 December 1st ends, " began my weather table for this month; one wonders what 

 was its form." Another item may be cited, dated December 9th : " Ordered a 

 self -registering night thermometer at Saunders' ; " this arrived on Christmas 

 Eve. But, alas! next day comes the record: "I burst my thermometer in 

 trying to repair it, as it had got out of order in its carriage here. Another 

 thermometer of the same pattern ordered on the 1st January, 1853, arrived on 

 the 13th." 



From December, 1849, until the 2Sth of January, 1851, results obtained by 

 observations during some of the vacations are tabulated in this form, e.g. : 



1852 and 1853. 



Another opening gives " low temperatures that I have recorded at this place " 

 (Little Bridy) " at various times " and " high temperatures." The entries range 

 in time from January, 1841, to August 30th, 1854, with a footnote: "Unfor- 

 tunately no record was kept of the frost in 183S, which was far the most severe 

 of any that have occurred since the beginning of this century." The highest 



