INDEX. 



435 



Downs, Sussex, a lovely range, 



181 

 Ducks, foreign, roost on trees, 



341 ; betake themselves to the 



water in the night time, and 



why, ib. 



Echo, a polysyllabical one, 250 ; 



why since mute, 253 ; several 



remarks on echoes, 251 

 Echoes. A charming description 



of echoes from Lucretius, 254 ; 



occasioned by the discharge of 



swivel guns, 314 

 Elm, Wych, size of a transplanted 



one, 15 

 Empedes, or Tiptilce, vast swarms 



of, in May, 379. 



Fairy rings, occasion of, 392 



Falcon, peregrine, particulars 

 about, 307 



Fieldfares, strange that they do 

 not breed in England, nor in 

 the Highlands of Scotland, 

 104 ; roost on the ground, 113 



Fishes, gold and silver, why very 

 amusing in a glass bowl, 299 



Flies, many species of, retire into 

 houses in the decline of the 

 year, 378 



Fly, bacon, injurious to the house- 

 wife, 146 ; whame, or burrel, 

 oestrus curvicauda, 148 ; May, 

 great swarms of, June, 1771) 

 374 ; nose, very tormenting to 

 horses, 376; ichneumon, de- 

 stroys spiders, 377 



Fly-catcher, some particulars of, 

 201 



Fogs, reflection of, a singular 

 phenomenon, 394 



Freestone, analogous to chalk, 12 ; 



makes the wood of trees grow- 

 ing on it shakey, 14 

 Frogs, particulars relating to, 67 

 Frost, that in January, 1768, de- 

 scribed, 316 ; that in January, 

 1776,319; that in December, 

 1784, 324 ; partial, reason of, 

 393 ; gentle, fattens animals, 

 &c., 116; dependent on wet, 

 316. 



Galls of Lombardy poplar, 388 

 Gassendus,curious quotation from, 



306 

 German silk-tail, garrulus Bohe- 



micus, shot, 47 ; boars, turned 



out in Wolmer, 38 

 Gossamer, a wonderful shower of, 



217 

 Greatham, the manor farm of, its 



privileges in Wolmer Forest, 31 

 Grosbeak, account of, 363 

 Gipsies, some particulars about, 



221. 



Hail-storm at Selborne in summer, 



1784, 331 

 Hanger, the, 11 

 Hawkley - hanger, the amazing 



fall thereof, 271 

 Hawk, sparrow, the dread of 



house- wives, 289; blue, or 



hen-harrier, boldness of when 



urged by hunger, 347 

 Haze, or smoky fog, the peculiar 



one which prevailed in summer, 



1783, 329 



Heath fires, why lighted up, 32 

 Hedgehog, some account of, 111 ; 



cannot contract when young, 



112 

 Heliotropes, summer and winter, 



how to make, 269 



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